East Tennessee cities are gearing up to fight data centers

The Fight Against AI Data Centers Is Spreading Globally

One of the clearest victories happened in a Dutch town that few people outside the Netherlands had heard of before 2021.

East Tennessee cities are gearing up to fight data centers

A Meta data center in Gallatin, Tennessee is one of about 60 data centers in Tennessee, while another 15 are proposed. Officials in East Tennessee cities are passing moratoriums on the centers. (Photo: John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)Data centers, which store and facilitate data for computer applications, have become more ubiquitous in public discourse over the past few years as artificial intelligence, AI, tools have risen in prominence. In ar…