AI's Gold Rush Meets the Reality Check: Data Centers Are America's Hottest Political Battleground

The Signal

A founder of the Tea Party movement — the same grassroots force that reshaped American politics in 2009 — just announced a nationwide "Data Center Revolt" bus tour. Amy Kremer, chairwoman of the group Humans First, plans to launch the tour on September 12 in Austin, Texas, rolling through the South, up the East Coast through Washington, D.C. and Northern Virginia, before finishing in Silicon Valley. She calls it "the battleground of the data center opposition movement." When...