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Nashville Rises In Opposition To Proposed Data Center Near Zoo

June 21, 2026 Albert Bender, People's World. , , ,
Seemingly out of the blue over the last few weeks came a proposal to build a massive data center right next to the Nashville Zoo. In response, on June 5, the Zoo initiated an online petition that so far has garnered over 460,000 signatures, with thousands more signatures each day. The petition is supported by the Metropolitan Nashville City Council, the Metro Nashville Public Schools Board, Mayor Freddie O’Connell, and Vice Mayor Angie Henderson. The board of the Nashville Zoo issued a statement saying it is “vehemently opposed” to the data center, which is currently in the permitting stage.

Massive AI Data Center Transforms Rural Utah Into National Flashpoint

May 9, 2026 Devin B. Martinez, People's Dispatch. , , , ,
“Shame! Shame! Shame!” chanted over a thousand voices on May 4, at the County Commission meeting of Box Elder, a rural county of Utah, as the three commissioners collected their things and quickly made their way toward the exit. Police moved toward the crowd as chants continued: “Who are you protecting?” and “People over Profit!”  The county commissioners had just voted to approve one of the world’s largest data centers. A 40,000-acre complex known as the “Stratos Project” is now moving forward in the rural area. These data facilities, although typically much smaller, are the essential infrastructure powering the AI technology boom.

Secretive New Mexico Data Center Plan Races Forward

December 14, 2025 Dan Ross, Truthout. , , ,
At the very Southeastern tip of New Mexico bordering Texas and Mexico, a new artificial intelligence (AI) data center is gearing up to be a greenhouse gas and air pollution behemoth, an additional water user in a drought-afflicted region, and a sower of community discontent. Project Jupiter is one of five sites in the $500 billion Stargate Project, a national pipeline of massive AI systems linked with OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank. “Health is my biggest concern. I’m worried about the air pollution, the ozone, and the buzzing noise,” local resident José Saldaña Jr., 45, told Truthout.

Data Center Lobbyists Clear The Way For Mega-Projects In Rural Georgia

August 19, 2025 Edward Donnelly, DeSmog. , , ,
County commissioners in Georgia may pave the way for a $17 billion “hyperscale” data center on Tuesday by adopting new planning laws shaped by industry lobbyists. If passed, the latest draft of the laws will ease requirements for “Project Sail” — a proposed data center in a rural area of Coweta County, 40 miles southwest of Atlanta — relative to a more stringent version proposed last month. One of the biggest planned complexes of its kind, Project Sail is a joint venture between San Francisco-based Prologis (NYSE:PLD), the world’s largest industrial real estate company, and Georgia-based developer Atlas Development. A DeSmog review of public records suggests that industry lobbyists and company representatives prevailed upon Coweta County officials to dilute earlier versions of the proposed planning rules for data centers.

From Farms To Data Centers: The Gas Industry’s Newest Sales Pitch

April 21, 2025 Edward Donnelly, DeSmog. , , ,
“In all my days here, this is the biggest black eye that Pittsylvania County has experienced,” says Amanda Sink Wydner, leader of the local opposition to plans for a massive new power plant and data center complex in Chatham, a small town in southern Virginia. On April 15, the county government will vote on whether to rezone hundreds acres of farmland to heavy industrial use, which would allow Balico LLC, a natural gas power developer, to proceed with the project. As planned, it would have the biggest power demand of any data center complex in the world, according to rankings from Data Center Magazine.
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