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The Data Center Backlash Is Splitting MAGA

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Every few days, I think the data center backlash has reached its apex — surely it can’t become an even bigger issue in American politics. Then it surprises me again. On Monday evening, the reaction got as close to President Donald Trump as it’s ever come, when six protesters interrupted his speech at a General Motors facility in Michigan to oppose the computing facilities. Although they were drowned out by the pro-Trump crowd, a new Fox News poll suggests their chants of “data centers no, people pay the bill” probably found some agreement in the crowd. Just as our own Heatmap Pro polling identified earlier this summer, that poll revealed U.S. voters would oppose the construction of a new AI data center in their area by a 40 point margin . Most interesting, I think, is that MAGA voters and Republican men are among the electorate’s most pro-data-center contingent, according to the Fox poll . (Our Heatmap Pro poll has found similar, though we didn’t ask about “MAGA” status per se.) But ev

First report: Fox News Poll: Cool your servers! Voters reject data centers — foxnews.com, 14d