Bonus episode of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s Building Local Power series. A trip to Nashville shows where the data center fight is headed and how Big Tech’s efforts to divide people are uniting a region. Elena Schlossberg of Data Center Alley is a featured voice: “It is a local fight, it is a state fight, and it is a national fight.”
Originally published 2026-10-15 at https://ilsr.org/articles/the-data-centers-are-coming-bonus-ep-2-fighting-for-our-lives/. Summary written for this site from the original; full text at the source.