In nearly every state, residents are angry about data centers and fighting efforts to build them near their towns. In Memphis, where xAI’s energy-guzzling , pollution-spewing supercomputing center popped up seemingly overnight, residents are protesting its operations, albeit without much success, as their county officials have permitted it to keep functioning. Other cities and states that have found themselves in the same boat are also pushing back. Maine tried to pass a moratorium on new data