An industry alliance supported by tech giants such as Google, Meta, and Microsoft is about to announce a series of promises to defuse American society's opposition to AI data centers. This issue has become an important focus of the November midterm elections. The AI Infrastructure Alliance, which promotes AI-related policies, will announce a number of commitments on Wednesday. Alliance members promise to bear the energy costs of operating their own data centers, fund community public institutions such as schools and hospitals, reduce water consumption, and prioritize hiring local employees. When AIIC introduced this “community principle,” polls showed that Americans' antipathy against data centers continued to increase over the past 12 months. The vast majority of voters in the Democratic Party and the Republican Party said they did not want to build new data centers around their homes. According to research, more than 1,000 communities across the US have tried to introduce moratoriums or other restrictions on AI infrastructure this year. Data from Data Center Watch, a research project owned by AI security company 10a Labs, shows that in the first half of 2026, these policies and various protests have affected more than 100 data center projects, with a total project scale of 200 billion US dollars.

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