Data center construction is increasingly becoming a political issue, with locals organizing against major tech companies like Meta, Amazon and Google, which are spending billions in a push to create the infrastructure they want to power their artificial intelligence projects.
As backlash to data center construction grows across the country, year-end analyses suggest that the construction boom may be the only thing currently keeping the American economy chugging along. At the same time, the consequences if AI lives up to the promise of replacing huge amounts of human labor could be just as dire.
