With new hyperscale data center projects popping up across Kentucky over the past year, public meetings have been increasingly full of local residents expressing their concerns, frustration and sometimes vehement opposition about those proposals to elected officials.
Last month, many of those same Kentuckians took their frustrations to the ballot box, voting in local primary races against officials who pushed for data center projects, or for the candidates and officials who stood in their way.
The primary results may reflect polling across the country that shows the public turning dramatically against energy-guzzling data centers and the artificial intelligence services they provide, as a large bipartisan majority says they do not want such a facility in their community…