A Missouri town voted out every city council member who approved a resolution to build an AI data center in their community. All four city council members who approved a plan to build a data center in Festus, Missouri, lost their bids for reelection. "This data center fight has struck this community to the core and really, honestly ignited a community-driven effort here," Dan Moore, who defeated Ward 3 incumbent Bobby Benz, said. One of the biggest issues Festus voters had with the data center plan was the lack of transparency and the feeling that council members cared less about residents' concerns and more about tax revenue. On the same day, voters in Port Washington, Wisconsin, approved a referendum to stop future data centers from being built. Data centers require massive amounts of water and create few jobs. #Missouri #artificialintelligence #datacenters