As AI data centers spread across the US, unions weigh potential job gains against rising local costs (The Cool Down, August 31st, 2026)
Annenberg poll: Americans trust their doctors when it comes to public health, but not FDA, CDC (CIDRAP, August 31st, 2026)
Where Americans’ confidence in healthcare stayed high in 2026, and where it fell (Becker's Hospital Review, August 31st, 2026)
Trump says communities rejecting data centres will be ‘backwards and poor’ as water and power concerns grow (International Business Times, August 31st, 2026)
The NIH Director says a lot. Critics call much of it misleading. (Insider Higher Ed, August 31st, 2026)
Pennsylvania may not have a youth voter apathy problem. Registration is the hurdle, experts say (WHYY, August 30th, 2026)
Backlash to data centres stateside means US may ‘prefer to see them built in Ireland’ (The Journal (Ireland), August 29th, 2026)
How two deaths in a Pennsylvania measles outbreak led to a clash between Gov. Josh Shapiro and RFK Jr. (The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 28th, 2026)
How did data center skepticism impact elections in southeastern Wyoming? (News from the States, August 28th, 2026)
Rejection of data centers grows and is alert to Brazil [Portuguese] (Valor Ecônomico [Brazil], August 27th, 2026)
A Republican attack ad used a family’s tragedy. Now they’re furious. (The New York Times, August 26th, 2026)
Iran faces a new round of sanctions, US and Canada tariff negotiations, large data center storm [Mandarin] (Special Broadcasting Service [Australia], August 25th, 2026)
Trump-backed Ken Paxton unveils ‘Texas first’ datacenter plan aimed at ‘negative impact’ (The Guardian, August 25th, 2026)
Opposition to local data centers rises sharply (University of Pennsylvania Almanac, August 25th, 2026)