Tea Party founder launches nationwide 'Data Center Revolt' against AI data center expansion

A founder of the Tea Party movement is heading a new nationwide campaign against AI data center expansion, arguing that tech corporations are encroaching on local communities and forcing residents to pay for the infrastructure against their will.

Amy Kremer, chairwoman of Humans First, said the nationwide bus tour, dubbed the "Data Center Revolt," will launch Sept. 12 in Austin, Texas, which she called the "battleground of the data center opposition movement." The tour will travel across the South and up the East Coast...