US states halt new data centers as 72% of Americans oppose local builds
YvesMulkers · x · 2026-10-26
Citing Reuters Breakingviews and an ABC/Post/Ipsos poll, YvesMulkers notes several US states have imposed moratoriums on new data centers, while 72% of Americans oppose one in their own community.
His take: the planning queue, not the chip queue, now determines 2028 capacity — community resistance and permitting are becoming the real bottleneck for AI compute expansion, with most Americans seeing AI as bad for society.
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