As US data center protests increase, the UK Government is warned it has a year to avoid the same. Will it pay heed?

In the US, President Donald Trump has left opponents of data center expansion of the contempt in which he holds them as protests at ground level become more frequent.

In its latest report, covering April to June, DataCenterWatch, a non-partisan research project from 10a Labs that tracks grassroots opposition to data center development across the US, finds that at least 45 data center projects, with a total value of nearly $68 billion, were blocked or delayed on the back of local protests.

But Trump has angrily berated the ‘not in my back yard’ (NIMBY) brigade via his Truth Social platform:

The only reason that communities throughout the USA should not want data centers is if they want to end up being backwards and poor.”

Sadly for Trump, on the eve of the mid-term elections, the American public doesn’t agree with him. A study from Heatmap, a project set up to...

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