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Data center backlash could slow CIOs' AI plans
Opposition to new data centers is becoming a material infrastructure and budgeting risk, with protests organized across 42 states, construction moratoriums active in 10 states, and new large-load electricity tariffs emerging across the country. CIOs may need to secure capacity earlier, reconsider cloud and colocation cost assumptions, diversify regions and providers, and treat compute and power as strategic supply-chain dependencies.
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