Datacenters — Timeline
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Tuesday, Aug 25, 2026
- 8:30 PM UTC Exclusive — Innovation Council Action’s Taylor Budowich: Data Centers ‘Should Be Feeding Our Communities,’ Start ‘Listening to What People are Saying breitbart.com
- 6:43 PM UTC Exclusive–Wynton Hall on Arrogance of Big Tech Elite: Locals Have Every Right to Question Data Centers breitbart.com
- 2:00 PM UTC I feared AI would leave my community behind. Now I see a path to prosperity foxnews.com
- 1:00 PM UTC 3 things Democrats don’t want you to know about AI and data centers foxnews.com
- 9:00 AM UTC America Needs AI to Survive. Working families also need to survive it foxnews.com
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Monday, Aug 24, 2026
- 10:22 PM UTC Ken Paxton unveils anti-data-center plan as GOP voter anger mounts in Texas washingtonpost.com
- 10:57 AM UTC How the GOP is approaching data center backlash and why Trump is pivoting to North Korea: Morning Rundown nbcnews.com
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Sunday, Aug 23, 2026
- 10:55 PM UTC What's bogging down the data center trade has nothing to do with demand cnbc.com
- 4:36 PM UTC Governor Abbott: Data Centers ‘Dug Their Own Grave’ breitbart.com
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Friday, Aug 21, 2026
- 5:38 PM UTC Jim Cramer looks at why our AI data center stocks are among the worst of the week cnbc.com
- 5:23 PM UTC MAHA activists urge Trump against promoting coal to power energy-hungry AI data centers apnews.com
- 4:04 PM UTC Liquid Death and Jason Kelce’s Garage Beer Mockingly Call on Americans to Save Urine to Cool AI Data Centers breitbart.com
- 12:00 PM UTC Tea Party founder launches nationwide 'Data Center Revolt' against AI data center expansion foxnews.com
- 9:00 AM UTC Democrats can take the lead on one of the nation’s top issues – data centers foxnews.com
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Thursday, Aug 20, 2026
- 5:53 PM UTC Trump keeps embracing data centers even as they become toxic in midterm races apnews.com
- 2:04 PM UTC AI data center outrage is showing up everywhere from ads to elections cnbc.com
- 2:01 AM UTC Backlash to data centers could cost GOP a Senate seat in Ohio, Republicans warn abcnews.go.com
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Wednesday, Aug 19, 2026
- 11:00 PM UTC Virginia county expects $1.3B haul in tax revenue from its 250 data centers— and has become a model for the nation nypost.com
- 9:15 PM UTC Trump says data centers maybe ‘could use a little public relations help’ businessinsider.com
- 2:25 PM UTC Nvidia plays matchmaker in Nordics, sources tell CNBC, as AI data center deals boom in region cnbc.com
- 9:00 AM UTC Silicon Valley is losing the data center fight, risking a repeat of a classic failure foxnews.com
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Monday, Aug 17, 2026
- 9:00 AM UTC From New York to Texas, states should respect local control on data centers foxnews.com
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Sunday, Aug 16, 2026
- 10:19 PM UTC ‘Country hick’ Kentucky farmers reject AI company’s $26M offer to build data centers on land nypost.com
- 2:54 PM UTC Rep. Ro Khanna calls for ‘Data Center Bill of Rights’ and says the industry needs regulation nbcnews.com
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Friday, Aug 14, 2026
- 12:15 PM UTC “Stop Toxic Data Centers”: Justin Pearson on Elon Musk, AI & Winning Dem. House Primary in Memphis democracynow.org
- 11:19 AM UTC Data centers in space could be a new frontier for insurers — if they can price the risk cnbc.com
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Thursday, Aug 13, 2026
- 9:09 PM UTC Breitbart Business Digest: AI Inflation Moves from Chips to Construction breitbart.com
- 4:40 PM UTC Meta and Trade Unions Sign National Deal on AI Data Center Construction breitbart.com
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Wednesday, Aug 12, 2026
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Tuesday, Aug 11, 2026
- 7:59 PM UTC California data center war takes vile turn as racist slurs fly at powerful union nypost.com
- 9:00 AM UTC Willie Nelson Gets It—This Time About Data Centers thenation.com
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Monday, Aug 10, 2026
- 12:00 PM UTC A Southern state just took the top spot in one of the world’s fastest-growing industries foxnews.com
- 10:00 AM UTC Trump calls Texas’ data center opposition a “mistake” salon.com
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Saturday, Aug 8, 2026
- 12:30 PM UTC Dem Senate hopeful flip-flops on emerging issue impacting communities across US foxnews.com
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Friday, Aug 7, 2026
- 6:45 PM UTC Weak Passwords Just Exposed Our Water Supply to Iranian Hackers cnet.com
- 6:31 PM UTC Nevada energy company sues data center in first-of-its-kind fight over who should pay for AI buildout cbsnews.com
- 5:55 PM UTC WATCH: Protestors Show Up with Guillotine at City Council Meeting, Scare Off Data Center Reps breitbart.com
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Thursday, Aug 6, 2026
- 2:13 PM UTC Why everyone is turning on data centers theverge.com
- 11:56 AM UTC Eric Adams battles tense crowd as Wisconsin audience erupts over AI data center proposal foxnews.com
- 9:40 AM UTC How Maryland activists paused an A.I. data center project—for now. slate.com
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Wednesday, Aug 5, 2026
- 9:32 PM UTC SpaceX ramps up Tesla Megapack purchases in Q2 to power its AI data centers cnbc.com
- 10:00 AM UTC NASA chief Jared Isaacman tells ‘Pod Force One’ about his NIMBY solution to data center backlash nypost.com
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Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026
- 10:24 PM UTC Sen. Ted Cruz on future of AI, Texas Senate race and more cbsnews.com
- 6:53 PM UTC How ICE and a data center turned a small Pittsburgh suburb into a civic battleground apnews.com
- 6:31 PM UTC An overlooked player in data center buildout delivers once again cnbc.com
- 3:47 PM UTC Texas says data centers must pass an audit before connecting to the grid theverge.com
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Monday, Aug 3, 2026
- 5:12 PM UTC Jim Cramer wants to 'replenish' our position in this data center play cnbc.com
- 10:00 AM UTC “A deal with the devil”: Religion motivates data center opponents in Texas salon.com
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Sunday, Aug 2, 2026
- 2:12 PM UTC Resistance grows nationwide against AI data center boom cbsnews.com
- 10:00 AM UTC US companies win billions in African data center deals in direct competition with China foxnews.com
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Thursday, Jul 30, 2026
- 9:50 PM UTC Nexus Data Centers in advanced talks to secure $15B for Google-backed Anthropic data center cnbc.com
- 2:06 PM UTC Inside a California data center as communities raise concerns about energy costs amid the AI boom cbsnews.com
- 7:17 AM UTC Rolls-Royce jumps 4% as it sees boost from both the defense boom and AI data center buildout cnbc.com
- 4:13 AM UTC UK slows AI data center roll-out over energy crunch — RT World News rt.com
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Wednesday, Jul 29, 2026
- 9:25 PM UTC Willie Nelson says Americans must fight ‘water thieving’ AI data centers ‘invading’ Texas farmland nypost.com
- 7:03 PM UTC Willie Nelson urges Americans to fight 'water thieving' AI data centers devouring rural Texas farmland foxnews.com
- 11:05 AM UTC Data center backlash in midterm elections and Iran launches attacks on U.S. targets: Morning Rundown nbcnews.com
- 9:09 AM UTC Sam Altman says he gets why people don't want AI data centers in their backyard businessinsider.com
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Monday, Jul 27, 2026
- 7:13 PM UTC Data center ban: Did New York make the right call? theweek.com
- 5:32 PM UTC Nvidia and OpenAI in talks for up to $250 billion dollar backstop to fund AI infrastructure plans cnbc.com
- 11:00 AM UTC The war on data centers jeopardizes our economy and national security foxnews.com
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Sunday, Jul 26, 2026
- 1:23 AM UTC Virginia study on groundwater, data centers calls for tighter water regulations apnews.com
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Thursday, Jul 23, 2026
- 10:19 PM UTC New York Gov. Kathy Hochul explains why she signed the first statewide moratorium on data centers nbcnews.com
- 4:15 PM UTC Trump expanding consumer protections for data center power costs nypost.com
- 3:53 PM UTC Trump expands a voluntary pledge to protect consumers from high utility bills from AI data centers apnews.com
- 1:58 PM UTC The hidden left-wing network powering a ‘conservative’ rebellion against a major Trump priority foxnews.com
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Wednesday, Jul 22, 2026
- 12:13 PM UTC ‘They Woke Up to This Construction’: Erin Brockovich Says She’s Been Flooded with AI Data Center Complaints breitbart.com