TL;DR In April, someone threw a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman’s San Francisco home, and a second attack days later added gunfire to the property. Data Center Watch found organized opposition groups roughly doubled from 396 at the end of 2025 to 833 by the end of March 2026, spanning 49 states. Opponents blocked or delayed at least 75 data-center projects worth about $130 billion in the first quarter of 2026 alone. The pressure isn’t only on the people at the top. According to the Data Center Watch Q1 2026 report , organized opposition groups roughly doubled from 396 at the end of last year to 833 by the end of March, spanning 49 states, and opponents blocked or delayed at least 75 projects worth about $130 billion in a single quarter. That is a very different problem from a viral tweet. It is permits denied, votes lost, sites relocated https://aiweekly.co/alerts/ai-executives-add-personal-security-as-backlash-turns-violent submitted by /u/Justgototheeffinmoon
Originally posted by u/Justgototheeffinmoon on r/ArtificialInteligence
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