Detroit, Michigan, Residents picket DTE Energy, opposing the electric utility's plan to provide power for a proposed $7 billion data center in rural Michigan.

A grassroots NIMBY revolt is turning voters in Republican strongholds against the AI data-center boom

“It’s like the Gilded Age, part two,” Kerwin Olson, a leader of an anti-data center activist group, said. “Only bigger.”

December 16, 2025

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