Fourteen thousand people in one California city are trying to stop a data center from rising on their old golf course — and they're only the beginning. From a 12-hour Florida hearing to a $500 billion AI megacampus on Cold War nuclear land, this is where the backlash against America's AI buildout collides with the biggest construction boom on record.
**COMMUNITY** — More than 14,000 Pittsburg, California residents have signed a petition to stop AVAIO Digital's 300,000-sq-ft data center on the former Delta View Golf Course. Over 300 packed a council meeting; the mayor has now devoted an entire upcoming meeting to data centers. (Source: NBC Bay Area / Local News Matters)
⚖️ **LEGAL** — Palm Beach County commissioners voted 5–1 to reject Project Tango, a 3.6-million-sq-ft hyperscale AI campus near Loxahatchee, after a 12-hour hearing that required overflow rooms and saw deputies escort residents out. A neighboring commerce center site remains zoned for servers. (Source: WPTV / WLRN)
🤖 **AI / TECH** — OpenAI and Nvidia are in talks to build a $500 billion, 10-gigawatt data center on the site of the former Portsmouth uranium enrichment plant (PORTS) in Pike County, Ohio. Nvidia is weighing a $250 billion backstop; the first 800-MW phase is targeted for 2028. (Source: CNBC / Forbes / DCD)
⚡ **POWER** — Chevron and Microsoft signed a 20-year deal for "Project Kilby," supplying up to 2.67 GW behind the meter via GE Vernova gas turbines in the Permian Basin. The ~$7B, 2,000-acre complex near Pecos, Texas won't connect to the grid at all. (Source: CNBC / Chevron / TechCrunch)
💧 **WATER** — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez held up jars of brown well water at a congressional hearing over a Meta data center in Morgan County, Georgia that residents say fouled their water. The EPA was directed to investigate; nearby Mansfield faces a 33% water rate hike. (Source: Tom's Hardware / Planetizen)
📜 **POLICY** — An Indianapolis City-County Council committee advanced a data center m
