Everyone Hates Data Centers. Why Aren’t Tech Companies Acting Like It?

Data centers are critical to the development of more advanced computing, including artificial intelligence (AI), and Americans will need more of them if they continue to use the new products tech companies are putting out.

But there’s a problem: Americans absolutely hate them.

In a recent poll taken by The Washington Post, 59 percent were “uncomfortable” with new data centers being built in their communities, and only 35 percent were OK with the idea. Three years ago, those numbers were practically reversed: 69 percent of American adults were “comfortable” with new data centers being built in their communities and only 24 percent were actively uncomfortable.

Read more in The National Interest.