America's hottest NIMBY issue: Data centers

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It's not often that Ron DeSantis, Josh Hawley, Bernie Sanders, and Elizbaeth Warren find common ground. But as more voters grow critical of AI data centers — the sprawling, humming, energy-guzzling campuses that power everything from pharmaceutical research to your AI girlfriend — they and many other politicians are squaring off with Big Tech and calling to regulate the burgeoning behemoths.

In New York, lawmakers have proposed a three-year moratorium on developing new centers.