The Built It Anyway - A Special Report

Something is happening in small towns all across America, and your local government is not telling you about it.This is a special edition of The Ignition News. One story. The story of data centers and the communities desperately trying to stop them.The United States already has more than 5,400 active data centers. They consume 4.4% of all US electricity right now. That number is headed to 12% by 2028. The five biggest tech companies are planning to spend between $660 and $690 billion on this infrastructure in 2026 alone. And 67% of new facilities are being sited in rural areas, in smaller communities with less political power and officials who have been told this is the best economic opportunity their town will ever see.Today we go to Maine, where the governor vetoed her own legislature's moratorium and promptly dropped her Senate race. To Utah, where Kevin O'Leary showed up, called the opposition bots, and the commission walked out of their own public meeting. To Boulder City, Nevada. To Wyoming. To Virginia. To Georgia, where residents are scared to drink their own well water.We talk about who is making money, who is actually paying, and what is working to stop it.They think you won't organize. They are wrong.