North Dakota officials bestow insult and injury in AI data centers battle

By: Vicki Voldal Rosenau

Outlets: North Dakota Monitor

Published: June 18, 2026

Words: 253

Last Updated: 1 month ago

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Bismarck’s disdain for the people of North Dakota has reached an appalling new extreme. Power-hungry officials sworn to serve the people are sneering at us instead. Evidently, Bismarck is feeling threatened by the groundswell of well-founded popular opposition to the state’s reckless push for AI data centers.

Cocksure that they know it all, they are contemptuously calling us stupid liars: In recent widely publicized news coverage, officials labeled facts that locals present about AI …

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