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Voters Turn to Recalls to Block Data Centers Fueling AI Boom

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Anger over data centers has boiled over in towns across America. Residents fed up with officials who greenlight these power-hungry facilities aren’t waiting for the next scheduled election. They are organizing recalls now. Petitions circulate. Lawsuits follow. And in several places this year, incumbents have already lost their seats. The facilities, built to train and run artificial intelligence systems, consume staggering amounts of electricity…

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The United States has become the technological laboratory where new forms of artificial intelligence (AI) are born and, now, also a laboratory of their social rejection. What began as local neighborhood protests against the installation in their communities of the so-called giant industrial data centers that house servers, storage systems and computer networks to make tools like ChatGPT work has become in a matter of months a phenomenon of natio…

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WebProNews broke the news on Friday, August 21, 2026.
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