# Opposition to Resource-Hungry AI Data Centers Spreads Across the U.S.

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Podcast: [WPKN: Politics, Policy, and Planet Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/wpkn-politics-policy-and-planet-podcast-7035361)
Published: 2026-05-14T04:53:37+00:00
Episode link: https://btlonline.org/opposition-to-resource-hungry-ai-data-centers-spreads-across-the-u-s/
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## Resource

Interview with Thomas Meyer, strategic organizing projects director for Food & Water Watch, conducted by Melinda Tuhus. Data centers require enormous amounts of energy and water, create noise and air pollution depending on how they’re powered—and create very few jobs. Between The Lines’ Melinda Tuhus spoke with Thomas Meyer, strategic organizing projects director for Food & Water Watch and Food & Water Action. Here he talks about the fight to stop or at least slow down the building of AI data centers in Maine and other states across the nation.

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