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America’s Growing Pushback Against Data Centers

In one Indiana town, what defeated Google wasn’t money or lawyers, but neighbors refusing to be divided.
America’s Growing Pushback Against Data Centers
A data center near single-family homes in Stone Ridge, Va., on July 17, 2024. Nathan Howard/Getty Images
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We are told daily that America is hopelessly divided, that every issue is red versus blue, left versus right, and that there is no longer common ground. But last month in Franklin Township, Indiana, something happened that doesn’t fit that story, and it may hold a lesson far bigger than one rezoning fight.

Kay Rubacek
Kay Rubacek
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Kay Rubacek is an award-winning educator, filmmaker, author, and mother. Detained in a Chinese prison in 2001 for her human-rights advocacy, she has since dedicated her work to exposing the systems and ideologies that diminish human life and human sovereignty. She has been a contributor to The Epoch Times since 2010.