New joint study reveals a rapidly growing, bipartisan backlash against Big Tech’s physical infrastructure, with a new local opposition group forming every day

United States, 28th Apr 2026 — Today, the Coalition for Responsible Data Center Development, Evitable, and Together Against AI released the Data Center Opposition Report, which documents an unprecedented surge in grassroots opposition to hyperscale AI data centers across the United States. The report identifies 268 local data center opposition groups organizing through Facebook. 

According to the report, more than 360,000 Americans have mobilized to resist the construction of hyperscale data center facilities across 37 states. Total opposition membership has quadrupled since December 2025, with more than one new group forming per day. The opposition is spread between blue and red states, as well as over 100,000 people in swing states.

The largest planned AI data centers will have an electrical capacity of over 1 gigawatt (1,000 megawatts), which is as much as the entire city of Seattle. This enormous scale and energy consumption is one of the main reasons for the surge in opposition. “Many people are concerned about the effects of million-square-foot data centers that would use as much electricity as entire cities,” said Matthew Shaw, one of the authors. “The construction of power-hungry hyperscale data centers is raising alarms among locals about everything from power bills and water use to noise and pollution,” he added. 

On top of this, non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) are a common practice in the process of land acquisition and rezoning for data centers. “Many people are understandably frustrated,” Matthew Shaw says, “because deals are being made behind NDAs to put giant data centers next to residential neighborhoods, and subsidize them with 90% tax cuts.”

“The massive data centers AI companies want to build are proving incredibly unpopular with local communities.  They have to fight to get their concerns addressed; plans for datacenters are getting rushed through without citizens’ consent,” said David Krueger, CEO of Evitable. “We’re keen to show people the scope of this resistance and how they can help support people involved in these fights.”

“Initially, we just wanted to make a list of opposition groups so people could find one near them,” said Matthew Shaw, one of the report’s authors. “But when we updated the membership counts in February, we were shocked at how quickly the movement had grown, so we decided to track the numbers on a monthly basis.” 

Opposition groups across America are collectively fundraising approximately $1.4 million, with a median ask of just $8,000 per campaign. The publicly available donation links are listed in the report’s appendix.

To read the report, visit datacenteropposition.com. The data will be updated monthly.  

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Cheri Magnuson debuts her chicken-keeping memoir, The Adventures of Dumdum, for Explora Books this year. The book features a collection of heartwarming stories portraying the challenges and joys of animal husbandry, centered on a directionally impaired Polish hen named Dumdum.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 28th Apr 2026 – After retiring from engineering in 2013, Cheri Magnuson established the Coldstream Icelandic Sheep Farm in Maine. She raises sheep specifically for their fleeces, which she sells to artisans and spinners. Her farming philosophy dictates that no animal is raised for food; instead, the sheep are treated as companion animals in farming from birth.

Magnuson’s experience as a shepherd is shaped by the loss of her son, who dies by suicide the same year her first lambs are born. She manages this ongoing grief alongside the seasonal demands of lambing season on a sheep farm, which she describes as a source of hope and personal promise.

In addition to shepherding, Magnuson writes poetry and true stories about her animals to express her internal feelings and memories. She openly discusses her dyslexia and memoir writing, as well as her history of feeling different from traditional social norms, viewing her unique spirit and her work on the Maine sheep farm as her intended purpose.

The Life Lessons

Cheri Magnuson chronicles her deep bond with Dumdum, a directionally impaired hen whose frequent accidents require constant care and protection. This relationship serves as a vital emotional anchor, showing how small-scale farming and animal care offer profound insights into a life shaped by personal loss. This experience yields several key lessons from her life with chickens.

• Embracing One’s Unique Nature

Magnuson reflects on her identity as someone who has long felt different. She draws a parallel to Dumdum’s poor sense of direction, suggesting that difference is not a defect but an inherent trait. Rather than measuring oneself against conventional standards of normality, she emphasizes self-acceptance, identity, and finding comfort within one’s own path.

• Resilience in the Face of Grief

The book revolves around the coexistence of joy and grief. Magnuson portrays her Maine sheep farm life as a place of recovery following the loss of her son. The endurance of her hens—such as Lady Guinevere surviving a harsh winter and frostbite to hatch a chick—depicts persistence amid hardship, offering a grounded example of resilience in grief and rural life.

• The Weight of Personal Responsibility

A key lesson in the book involves responsibility and care. After a neighbor’s miscount leaves Dumdum exposed to freezing conditions, Magnuson realizes that the well-being of those in her care cannot be entrusted to others. She assumes full responsibility, reinforcing themes of farm stewardship and animal care responsibility.

• Finding Hope and Renewal

Even against the backdrop of grief, the cyclical nature of farm life points to renewal. The anticipation of new lambs and the growth of the flock signal continuity and change. These patterns imply the perennial nature of life—the unceasing possibility of meaning, healing, and renewal through farming life.

• Authenticity and Vulnerability

Magnuson maintains transparency about her dyslexia and grammatical inconsistencies in her writing. This choice conveys a commitment to authentic memoir writing rooted in lived experience. In doing so, she frames authenticity as a willingness to remain visible in one’s own voice, rather than conforming to external expectations.

Through the rhythms of farm life and the fragile, persistent presence of Dumdum, Magnuson traces a way of living that holds grief and care in the same hand. Her farm stories suggest that meaning is not found in overcoming loss, but in learning to live responsibly, honestly, and attentively within it. 

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San Francisco, CA , 28th April 2026, ZEXPRWIRE — Neel Somani is breaking down one of the more advanced concepts in market design and quantitative modeling: complementarity, a framework that helps explain how interconnected prices and incentives behave in power and commodity markets.

Known for translating complex financial and infrastructure systems into understandable concepts, Somani recently outlined how complementarity appears throughout energy trading, power pricing, and commodities. Drawing from his experience as a former quantitative researcher at Citadel in the commodities group, he explained why many markets cannot be solved through a single optimization problem alone.

Beyond Traditional Optimization

Most people are familiar with optimization in simple terms: finding the best possible outcome under a set of constraints. Businesses optimize costs, investors optimize returns, and grid operators optimize power dispatch.

Complementarity goes one step further.

Rather than solving one isolated problem, complementarity involves multiple optimization problems that depend on each other simultaneously. Each variable affects the others, creating a feedback loop that must eventually converge to equilibrium.

According to Neel Somani, this framework appears constantly in commodities markets for those who know where to look.

Natural Gas and Power: A Classic Example

One of the clearest examples is the relationship between natural gas and electricity prices.

In many regions, electricity is generated by burning natural gas. That means gas prices directly influence the cost of producing power. If gas prices rise, the marginal cost of generation often rises as well, pushing electricity prices higher.

But the relationship also runs in reverse.

If electricity demand surges and power prices increase, demand for gas-fired generation can rise, which in turn influences gas prices.

This creates a two-way dependency:

• Power prices are influenced by gas prices

• Gas prices are influenced by power demand and power prices

Instead of a one-directional equation, traders and modelers often solve these variables iteratively, moving back and forth until the system converges.

“That’s a complementarity problem,” Somani explains. “It’s not just one optimization problem. It’s two optimization problems that depend on each other.”

How Bidding Behavior Impacts Power Prices

Neel Somani also highlighted another real-world example: electricity market bidding behavior.

In many wholesale power markets, generators submit bids stating the price at which they are willing to produce electricity. The market operator then stacks these bids from lowest to highest cost until enough supply is selected to meet demand.

The final accepted bid sets the uniform clearing price, meaning all selected generators receive that same market price.

For most producers, the rational strategy is simple: bid close to marginal cost.

If it costs a generator $20 to produce power, bidding $20 improves the chance of being selected. Because many generators are infra-marginal, meaning they are selected before the last unit sets price, their own bid may not determine the final payment they receive.

When the Marginal Unit Knows It Matters

The problem becomes more complex when a generator expects to be the last accepted unit, the marginal supplier that sets price for everyone else.

In that case, incentives change.

Instead of bidding strictly at cost, that generator may choose to bid a premium to increase profits. But once one participant changes behavior, the clearing price can shift, potentially changing which generator becomes marginal.

This creates another feedback loop:

• Power price depends on submitted bids

• Submitted bids depend on expected power price

As a result, sophisticated market participants may model this through repeated iterations:

1. Assume everyone bids marginal cost

2. Solve for the clearing price

3. Adjust bids for the marginal supplier

4. Recalculate price

5. Repeat until equilibrium is reached

Again, this is a complementarity problem, where market outcomes and participant behavior shape each other simultaneously.

Why This Matters in Real Markets

Understanding complementarity is valuable because many real markets are not linear.

Prices do not simply respond to supply and demand in a static way. Instead:

• Incentives react to prices

• Prices react to incentives

• Inputs affect outputs

• Outputs affect future inputs

This is especially true in energy, where physical constraints, fuel markets, weather, regulation, and strategic bidding all interact.

For traders, investors, and policymakers, recognizing these relationships can provide a deeper understanding of volatility, pricing anomalies, and equilibrium behavior.

A Builder of Complex Systems

Neel Somani’s ability to explain these concepts reflects a career built around high-complexity systems.

He graduated from University of California, Berkeley with a triple major in mathematics, computer science, and business administration. He later worked at Airbnb and Citadel before founding Eclipse in 2022, which went on to raise $65 million.

Today, his focus includes machine learning research, education, and philanthropy, while continuing to share practical insights on markets and optimization.

Seeing What Others Miss

Neel Somani’s broader point is that complementarity problems exist across commodities markets far beyond just gas and power.

For those who understand how systems interact, these relationships become opportunities for better modeling, smarter decision-making, and clearer market intuition.

As markets grow more interconnected, the ability to recognize second-order dynamics may become just as valuable as understanding first-order supply and demand itself.

To learn more visit: https://www.neelsomani.com/