{"id":1013806,"date":"2026-06-11T11:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T06:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1013806"},"modified":"2026-06-11T11:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T06:28:07","slug":"bill-gates-to-amazon-google-meta-microsoft-and-every-other-company-building-data-center-in-the-us-communities-will-not-accept-data-centers-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/11\/bill-gates-to-amazon-google-meta-microsoft-and-every-other-company-building-data-center-in-the-us-communities-will-not-accept-data-centers-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates to Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and every other company building data center in the US: Communities will not accept data centers that&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Gates does not usually line up with the protestors. So when the Microsoft co-founder went on CNBC and told the AI industry it has no permission to push up household power bills, the message carried weight the protestors themselves cannot deliver. The frenzy is real, he said. The economic value is real. The race against China is real. None of it overrides the basic political contract a hyperscaler signs when it walks into a town and asks for nine gigawatts. Get the siting wrong, the economics wrong, the residents wrong\u2014the project does not get built. And the warning lands at a moment when the industry can no longer pretend the resistance is fringe. It is winning votes, killing projects, and rewriting the terms on which America&#8217;s AI buildout is allowed to proceed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Gates does not usually line up with the protestors. So when the Microsoft co-founder went on CNBC and told the AI industry it has no permission to push up household power bills, the message carried weight the protestors themselves cannot deliver. The frenzy is real, he said. The economic value is real. The race against China is real. None of it overrides the basic political contract a hyperscaler signs when it walks into a town and asks for nine gigawatts. Get the siting wrong, the economics wrong, the residents wrong\u2014the project does not get built. And the warning lands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013809,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013806\/revisions\/1013809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}