Bipartisan backlash to data‑center subsidies

Local protests against hyperscale data centers are converging on a political argument that transcends party lines: residents resent large tech firms extracting local water, power, and land while receiving state tax breaks and providing few permanent jobs. That dynamic is producing lawmakers from both parties to reexamine or roll back incentive programs. — If bipartisan coalitions form to curb data‑center subsidies, state industrial policy and the pace of AI/compute expansion could be materially altered across the U.S.