I am SO DELIGHTED to announce that our brand new report: The AI Factory: Data Centers, Power, and Resistance in Late Industrial Pennsylvania is out today. datasociety.net/research-lib... TechCrunch has the scoop: techcrunch.com/2026/09/22/e...
- A Data & Society report finds over 60% of Americans favor limiting new data center construction, with $68 billion in projects disrupted by local opposition in Q2 2026.
- The finding rests on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork and 44 interviews in Pennsylvania, where Governor Josh Shapiro touted $90 billion in AI infrastructure investment in July 2025.
- Shapiro has since signed an order adding new requirements and pulling data center projects off regulatory fast-track initiatives.