Pennsylvania voters unite against data centres: 'People are going to get screwed'
1vuio0pswjnm7 · hn · 2026-09-04
FT reports that residents in several Pennsylvania communities are organizing against local data centre projects, citing noise, potential utility cost shifts, and disruption to their neighborhoods. As AI compute demand expands, grassroots opposition is becoming a real hurdle for data centre siting.
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