The AI industry has long worried about job losses and rogue AI, but missed the most publicly salient issue: data center backlash. Data center construction was once uncontroversial and incentivized by tax codes, but now faces complete opposition.

On the Odd Lots podcast, hosts Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway speak with independent writer Jasmine Sun, who recently traveled to Wisconsin and Michigan for on-the-ground reporting about communities and activists trying to stop data center development.

Sun explains what the pushback is really about, what it represents, and what future developers must do to be welcomed. The episode aired August 21, 2026 on Bloomberg Markets.