Right-wing boomers and the left unite to protest Florida data centres

About a dozen residents gathered outside the Spring Hill Branch Library in central Florida to protest plans for a hyperscale data centre in their community. Hernando County commissioners had already unanimously approved a one-year moratorium on such developments in June. The article notes striking parallels between the right-wing, mostly older protest movement and left-wing opposition to the same type of infrastructure.

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