A New Unifying Issue: Just About Everyone Hates Data Centers

[RandySF]

t’s not a novel observation to say that supporters of President Donald Trump and supporters of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders find common ground on many issues. They often share a skepticism of entrenched power and a desire to dismantle systems that they think have ceased to serve everyday people.

In Indiana, this agreement includes a distrust of data centers.

“The MAGA crowd and the Bernie bros have both figured out that they’ve been getting duped,” said Kerwin Olson, executive director of Citizens Action Coalition, an Indianapolis-based consumer and environmental advocacy nonprofit. “It was data centers that really brought it all together.”

Olson’s organization is running a campaign to persuade Indiana lawmakers to place a moratorium on new data centers and to redesign electricity rates to protect residential consumers from rate increases related to data center development.



https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13112025/inside-clean-energy-just-about-everyone-hates-data-centers/

[BeyondGeography]

1. Not wanting or needing something and having to pay for it anyway

in the form of higher electricity bills. Plus this stuff is costing people their jobs. What’s not to love?

There’s political gold in regulating the crap out of AI. Any Democrat who jumps on it will prosper.

[dalton99a]

2. +1

[ms liberty]

3. Not just power - they use enormous amounts of water as well

[rampartd]

5. doesn't the big beautiful whatever "protect" ai from regulation?

enough reason to unplug these data centers as any.

How about unplugging them from the grid and making the billionaires provide their own power source?

bitcoin mines are another problem.

[newdeal2]

8. Young people are also motivated by this issue

Given the terrible job market for new graduates.

[pfitz59]

4. Energy hogs

there are proposals to build new nuclear reactors soley to power data center. 'Skynet' reality.

[Autumn]

6. We Bernie Bros always knew we were getting duped.

Data centers are just another cog in the machine.

[LymphocyteLover]

7. I don't think regular Democrats are big fans either!

[Cheezoholic]

9. It's going to be impossible to power what they want to build over the next 10 years. 20 nukes just for Open AI n/t