My latest article for Computer Weekly.
In part one of a series looking at attitudes to datacentres, we look at the organisations that oppose new builds, concerns and motivations, what the industry thinks and what solutions might resolve the various impasses
Just before 1.00am on a Monday in early April 2026, Indianapolis city councillor Ron Gibson awoke as 13 gunshots hit his house. When safe to do so, he found a note on his doorstep that said, “No data centers”. Gibson had apparently been targeted for his support of a proposed multimillion-dollar datacentre project in one of the districts he represents.
That’s a rare and extreme happening. But anti-datacentre sentiment and campaigning exists and has accelerated in direct proportion to the wave of datacentre expansion and artificial intelligence (AI) ambitions we now live in.
In the first article of a two-part series, we look at opposition to datacentre development, the types of opposition, what the concerns are, how the industry views campaigners and the potential solutions.
For more, head to Computer Weekly.
