‘This is very real redlining’: outrage in Little Rock as two datacenters loom

Critics decry proposed hyperscale projects, fearing overuse of water and electricity, and appropriating rural, Black-owned land for industrial purposes'

There seems to be a fight over datacenters in nearly every city in the US right now. And amid the extreme polarization of today's politics, the opposition tends to be bipartisan.

I would say it's kind of the far left and the far right ran into each other and had a hug," said Frank Scott Jr, mayor of Little Rock, Arkansas. But they come at it from different perspectives."