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AI Data Centers Faced 41 Local Votes. Voters Favored Limits in 40

A data center can have GPUs, land, financing, and a power contract, then still run into a constraint no capacity-planning spreadsheet can solve: the people who live nearby do not trust the deal. That became difficult to ignore after the November 3, 2026 U.S. elections. Ballotpedia reported that vot…

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  1. 2026-11-07 16:07 · DEV Community — AI
    AI Data Centers Faced 41 Local Votes. Voters Favored Limits in 40

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