His administration’s efforts to speed up data center construction are stoking the very backlash that could stymie growth.
Last year, Trump laid out a sweeping plan to accelerate data center infrastructure. Jacquelyn Martin/AP
The residents of Boulder City, Nevada, are raging mad at the federal government.
The Trump administration unilaterally approved a data center on a tract of public land within the city’s jurisdiction this summer without giving residents a say in the matter and without conducting an environmental assessment specific to the project.
“Tyranny,” one resident described it in front of the City Council in July.
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