A.F. Branco Cartoon – Many of the same people who have no problem with acres of windmills and solar panels are protesting data centers.

Anti-Data Centers Is The New Nuclear Freeze: China Wants To End American AI Dominance, Energy Production And Everything Else

By Robert Romano – DailyTorch.com – Sept 8, 2026

“I would hate to see China win the war on AI… I have a sense that China is funding the opposition to AI [data] centers.”
That was Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) in a Breitbart News interview on Aug. 31 warning that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) might be funding opposition to data centers — more than 5,400 nationwide according to Cloudscene — utilized by artificial intelligence (AI) and other internet companies to store and process large amounts of data used every day on our smart phones, computers and by large critical infrastructure including financial, educational, communications, entertainment, medical, military, emergency dispatch and other government institutions, and utilities, water management and the… READ MORE

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[Editor’s Note: Amazon’s data centers use much less water than they used to. Data centers use less than 0.5% of the fresh water used in America. It is commonly assumed that data centers drive up people’s electric bills, but Real Clear Energy says “Data Centers Are Not Driving Up Your Electric Bill.” “A new study covering wholesale and retail electricity markets from 2015 through the end of 2025 finds that they are not.” Data centers sometimes provide property tax relief for homeowners.]

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