Data centers become campaign fodder

Political advertisers on Facebook and Instagram are increasingly using data‑center opposition as a targeted campaign message, spending millions to run anti‑data‑center ads across states. This trend has flipped sentiment in platform ad inventories from more pro‑data‑center earlier in 2026 to predominantly anti‑data‑center by October. — If infrastructure projects can be amplified into major campaign themes via social‑platform ad spending, permitting, grid planning, and AI‑compute siting will be decided as much by digital ad battles as by technical or municipal processes.