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The great rebellion against data centers

2026-08-22 14:53:42Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA DANILO TAINO

 

If it absolutely has to be built near my house, I'd rather have a nuclear power plant than a data center. More and more people are thinking this way. Perhaps it was inevitable: we have entered the phase in which Artificial Intelligence and the structures that make it work face their most difficult obstacle: popular opposition. This is especially true in the United States, where AI is now the central issue in society, the scientific community, the economy, on Wall Street and in the campaigns for the midterm elections next November.

But opposition movements are also growing in Europe. Anxiety about an incomprehensible "artificial future" is turning into mobilization: data centers are the concrete presence - not digital, but finally physical - that can be opposed. These are buildings that house vast quantities of servers connected to networks to process and store information. They are getting bigger and bigger: Meta is planning one in Louisiana, costing ten billion dollars, which will cover an area equivalent to 70 football fields.

In addition to being grim parallelepipeds, data centers are frowned upon by local communities because they require vast amounts of energy to operate and consume millions of gallons of water to prevent servers from overheating. Citizens affected by these projects are organizing to stop them: a recent Gallup poll found that 71% of Americans oppose artificial intelligence data centers. Over the past 12 months, this popular opposition in the United States has resulted in the cancellation or suspension of at least $100 billion in investments. Artificial intelligence is a key issue in 40% of US election campaigns in November.

In France, the community of Wissous, south of Paris, mobilized against an Amazon data center, and protests are growing in the suburbs of Marseille. In Ireland, demonstrations are targeting data centers that consume more than 20% of electricity supplies and increase utility bills.

Behind the rejection of these mega-boxes lies anxiety about Artificial Intelligence in general, about the jobs it is feared to destroy, about the social change it is bringing and about the difficulty of controlling its risks. Ultimately, the same thing is happening as in other revolutions in the past: a struggle between transformative technology and those who fear being transformed. (Corriere della Sera) 


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