--- title: Data centers are amazing. Everyone hates them. | daily.dev description: Hyperscale data centers are engineering marvels housing thousands of GPUs for AI computation, but face widespread public opposition across the US. Communities... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/data-centers-are-amazing-everyone-hates-them--fvurreoaq twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Data centers are amazing. Everyone hates them. | daily.dev og:description: Hyperscale data centers are engineering marvels housing thousands of GPUs for AI computation, but face widespread public opposition across the US. Communities... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/data-centers-are-amazing-everyone-hates-them--fvurreoaq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/FVUrreOaq.png og:image:alt: Data centers are amazing. Everyone hates them. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Data centers are amazing. Everyone hates them. **[MIT Technology Review](https://daily.dev/sources/technologyreview)** · 8 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Hyperscale data centers are engineering marvels housing thousands of GPUs for AI computation, but face widespread public opposition across the US. Communities resist them due to rising electricity bills, environmental concerns including water usage and noise pollution, and minimal job creation despite massive resource consumption. The backlash mirrors earlier tech bus protests, representing frustration with AI's societal transformation and the feeling of powerlessness against big tech companies profiting at local communities' expense. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#infrastructure](https://daily.dev/tags/infrastructure), [#gpu](https://daily.dev/tags/gpu) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/data-centers-are-amazing-everyone-hates-them--fvurreoaq) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Data centers are amazing. Everyone hates them.","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/data-centers-are-amazing-everyone-hates-them--fvurreoaq","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/data-centers-are-amazing-everyone-hates-them--fvurreoaq"},"datePublished":"2026-01-14T11:47:46.412Z","dateModified":"2026-01-14T11:48:08.087Z","description":"Hyperscale data centers are engineering marvels housing thousands of GPUs for AI computation, but face widespread public opposition across the US. Communities...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/4e6858ca9cbcbe9d81f514718178b05c?_a=AQAEulh","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/4e6858ca9cbcbe9d81f514718178b05c?_a=AQAEulh","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"MIT Technology Review","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"MIT Technology Review","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/a8d03889722f4f22b3986e0b395ff076","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/technologyreview"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/data-centers-are-amazing-everyone-hates-them--fvurreoaq","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"ai,infrastructure,gpu","timeRequired":"PT8M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"MIT Technology Review","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/technologyreview"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Data centers are amazing. Everyone hates them."}]} ```