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Everyday Americans are fighting to take down data centers

Rural Ohioans are trying to put the future of hyper-scale data centers on the ballot, and they’re gaining momentum

Published July 9, 2026 6:30AM (EDT)

Growing up in Brown County, Ohio, Karley Baurichter learned to appreciate the land her family descended from. Her grandfather, whom she affectionately called “Papaw,” would take her to nearby paylakes and teach her how to catch and clean fish. He’d tell stories of shooting possum and digging for frogs when he didn’t have any other food, his grandfather who played the fiddle and rode the rails, and how the family’s milk and moonshine business allowed them to buy the 100 acres in Brown County Baurichter would spend Christmases and Easters on.

That’s the Appalachian landscape that Baurichter, a writer and stay-at-home mother in Higginsport, yearned to return to after a stint in Cincinnati for college. It’s also the environment that large corporations want to take over with the construction of hyperscale data centers that are at the forefront of the artificial intelligence bubble.

“These big companies use the same playbook everywhere,” she said. “They assume that rural folk are dumb. They assume that rural folk are not going........

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