EU Plans to Triple Data Center Capacity by Decade’s End Amid Growing Local Protests
Farmers are rejecting multimillion-dollar offers as institutional investors and tech companies expand their search for land, with farmland values held for rent up 47% since 2014.
- Communities across the nation are rejecting multimillion-dollar bids from tech companies seeking to convert agricultural land into data centers, citing concerns over energy usage, clean air, and farmland loss.
- Chronic low prices and corporate consolidation pushed farmers to the brink, with 159,000 family farms lost between 2017 and 2022, forcing many to sell to institutional investors.
- Institutional investors hold up to $16.6 billion in farmland, an eightfold rise since 2008, while the 2024 TOTAL Survey shows 87% of more than 2 million landowners renting farmland are non-operators.
- Congress is considering the Farmers Act to restrict large corporate entities from purchasing agricultural land for speculation, with proponents arguing the Midwestern-modeled legislation could protect farmland for future generations.
- Tim Gibbons, Executive Director of the National Family Farm Coalition, advocates for federal policies ensuring farmers make a living wage, emphasizing that supporting the next generation of farmers secures the food supply.
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Resistance to the AI data centers is growing in the US. He is even embittered in economic-friendly Texas. Report on a citizen protest that moves politics ahead of the interim elections.
Meanwhile, the EU would triple its capacities by the end of the decade.
Commentary: Data Centers Aren’t the Only Threat to Farmland
Protests against data centers have exploded across the US, with communities revolting against a multitude of proven damaging effects on energy prices, clean air and water – and the devastation of tens of thousands of acres of agricultural land. Recent headlines in national publications report that farmers and rural communities are rejecting multimillion-dollar bids from […]
No benefits: Why most Americans hate the idea of AI data centers
In recent months I've been asked by numerous readers to give my take on the AI data center issue and the debate it has ignited across the US. In response, I've jumped into a steep learning curve, but it seems to parallel information I've covered in previous articles on AI. From what I can tell, both political parties are split on the data center debate. There are Democrats and Republicans on both sides of the divide, though their reasons for opp…
From NIMBY to Nationwide Revolt: Why Americans Now Fiercely Reject AI Data Centers
Polls show 71-75% of Americans now oppose AI data centers near their homes, a sharp rise from near-even splits just a year ago. Concerns center on power costs, water use, noise and environmental strain as local resistance blocks billions in projects nationwide. The backlash crosses party lines and shows no sign of easing.
The conflict on data centers is now changing in nature: it no longer only concerns environmental groups or individual local committees, but it calls into question the relationship between artificial intelligence, physical infrastructure and communities that must host them. The reasons are many, but simple. Artificial intelligence appears immaterial: a question typed, an answer [...] The article Raises the revolts against the data centers of the …
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