Mainstream Media Catches Up: AI Data Centers are the New Fracking

Please excuse our immodesty while we toot our own horn. MDN first tipped you back in July 2025 that the Democrat anti-fracking movement in Pennsylvania (and beyond) was rapidly becoming anti-data center (see PA Antis Hate Fossil Fuels, Shale Drilling, and Now…Data Centers). The trend only blossomed, with national and international groups joining the chorus against data centers. Here we are in April 2026, some nine months later, and the mainstream media, via the venerable Financial Times of London, has just noticed this fact and published an article that reaches the same conclusion.

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