Gallup survey<\/a> shows 70% of Americans oppose constructing data centers for artificial intelligence in their local area, including 48% who strongly oppose them. That\u2019s a significant jump from the 47% who opposed these projects in a separate late-2025 survey.<\/p>\nAdditionally, there are no meaningful differences in total opposition by age, race, education, income or urbanicity. Opposition is slightly lower among those living in the West (63%) and East (68%) than in the Midwest (76%) and South (75%). What we can say for sure is that the American people are growing weary of Big Tech\u2019s careless corporate and civic behaviors and their over-hyped, hard-to-afford, and hard-to-use products and services.<\/p>\n
In response, industry leaders could adjust their playbook. They could<\/em> run their data centers on renewable energy and manufacture servers that run considerably cooler. Or<\/em>, they could continue to ignore the public\u2019s cry for change and make counterarguments about how data centers and AI are good for you and yours.<\/p>\n