AI Data Centers Face Growing — And Bipartisan — Pushback [Patch Survey]

Bipartisan opposition to AI data centers is growing across the country, with polls from Reuters/Ipsos, Gallup, and Pew showing Americans on both sides of the aisle worried about rising electricity costs, heavy water use, and the industrial footprint these facilities bring to local communities. The tension is a real one: public demand for AI tools keeps climbing, but the massive infrastructure needed to support them has to land somewhere, and nobody particularly wants it in their backyard.