Jul. 20 at 12:59 PM
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Texas, the country's hottest data-center market, hosted the most rallies - 18 - with Georgia at 11, California at eight, and Pennsylvania, Florida, and Indiana at seven apiece.
In Imperial Valley, where a proposed facility could pull 260 million gallons a year from the Colorado River, Ivan DelSol, 54, told Reuters that around 50 people turned out in 100-degree heat. "It's dystopian that you would use this much fresh water for AI," he said.
Third-party trackers cited by Morgan Stanley in its July 14 note put the value of cancelled or delayed projects at roughly
$156 billion in 2025 and another
$130 billion in the first quarter of 2026 alone - about
$286 billion in all - set against the bank's own estimate of
$877 billion in AI capital spending this year.
https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/data-center-revolt-goes-national-tea-party-veteran-leads-142-rallies-across-42-states
