I doubt they are broadcasting that most (67%) are planned in rural areas, so the politics of that may become very interesting, quickly. Er, I should say even more interesting, I guess.

The u-turn on this has been a pretty wild ride, that's for sure.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/04/13/most-new-data-centers-in-the-us-are-coming-to-rural-areas/

Also, I think it's why fElon keeps talking about putting "compute" 🙄 into space.

People like him utterly disdain populism (the real kind, not the fascist facsimile) and communities fighting back and so putting these things in space would put them entirely beyond the control of people being able to do anything about it, especially with a compliant administration like donnie's.

Problem is that usually the majority needs to get something out of things like this for that to work properly, IE who cares if they demolished black neighborhoods to build the freeway we got a freeway of out of it. That's not happening with data centers, nobody gets anything out of them including the oligarchs since this shit is just a resource sink and one that may get them killed at this rate.