AI data centers are taking over land, power, and water across the U.S., and homeowners are losing their homes through eminent domain — bad news for local residents, good news for tech giants and the government.

• Georgia Power is seizing homes through eminent domain to expand power lines for new AI data centers, and similar takings are spreading.
• Trump declared an emergency over the AI race, which lets the government and tech companies override local objections under national security.
• People near these centers complain of constant low-frequency humming, possible radiation, and huge water use for cooling.
• Big tech (Musk, Thiel, Oracle, Google, Palantir) is accused of buying Trump's presidency to push a centralized AI surveillance state, with Musk's Doge already vacuuming up federal data.
• A counter-idea is decentralized compute — small AI boxes at people's homes running open-source models, so power and money are not concentrated in a few mega-centers.

Outlook: About half of planned data centers have already been cancelled or delayed by local pushback, and resistance is expected to grow as more communities organize.