A data center the size of 1,600 football fields is rising in the New Mexico desert. Locals call it Project Jupiter — and what they’re dealing with is now happening in towns across America.
In this video, homeowners in Georgia, Virginia, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and beyond speak out about what happens when a massive AI data center lands next door: land seized by eminent domain, electric bills jumping 25%, sediment in the tap water, turbine fumes at night, and surveillance cameras in residential yards — all to power the AI boom for tenants they’ll never meet.
These are firsthand accounts from residents who say they were never consulted, sued into submission, or bought off with a fraction of a percent of a multi-billion-dollar project. A Georgia family is told to sell their home or the state will seize it. A desert town of 2,300 votes NO twice and gets sued into signing anyway. One Virginia county now holds 37 data centers while residents brace for a 25% rate hike. This is the “Data Center Alley” playbook — first run in Northern Virginia, now exported to rural counties that never had time to read the fine print.
The pattern underneath it is a wholesale transfer — of water, power, and land — from the people who live somewhere to the firms that only compute there. Nobody voted for it. And they’re still not being asked.