Hyperscale Data Centers Provoke Bipartisan Outrage Across Kentucky

Hyperscale data centers provoke bipartisan outrage

Mercer County is heavily Republican, but at a planning and zoning commission hearing in late July, resident Dallas Waterfield of Burgin found common cause with Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over opposition to data centers. “Even on the news that AOC, that Cortez woman, she’s against it,” he said in the public comment period, to a few laughs in the crowd. “She had dirty water in a glass on the national news.” Waterfield was re…

Hyperscale data centers provoke bipartisan outrage across Kentucky

Opposition to hyperscale data centers is stoking bipartisanship in Kentucky, with Republicans and Democrats finding common cause in their resistance to local proposals.

Commentary: The data center fight in Kentucky is about democracy

When it comes to potential harms to air, water and quality of life, Kentuckians have ample experience with powerful corporations damaging human health and the land with impunity.