Is This the Fastest Opinion Shift in American Politics?

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  I'm David Wallace-Wells.

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  I'm a writer for New York Times Opinion and a columnist for The Times Magazine.

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  This is an insanely polarized country, which means it isn't very often you see a political supermajority on any issue,

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  let alone one that emerges almost out of nowhere to announce itself as a major new front in our politics.

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  But that's exactly what has happened just over the last year with AI data centers.

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  Around 7 in 10 Americans now oppose the construction of local data centers to power AI.

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  Last fall, people were almost exactly evenly split when asked if they'd support a new data center nearby.

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  Now, there's a 50-point gap.

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  That is an absolutely crazy swing, much bigger than the reversals

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