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Camouflaged hyperscale data centers face growing local resistance
Oct 2, 2026SOURCE: theverge.com
SO WHAT
In the thousand-day window, siting fights signal a legitimacy crisis: physical infrastructure expansion is becoming the bottleneck for otherwise inevitable AI capacity growth.
San Antonio councilmember Ric Galvan recalls early data centers as modest buildings, later replaced by vast hyperscale campuses. The old system is now being challenged by scale and visibility, not by technology alone.
This is Negative Resistance’s reframed reading of a reported signal. The headline and analysis above are our interpretation through the thousand-day-window lens. The original reporting lives at the source linked above.