"Willie Nelson has become an unlikely barometer of America's biggest infrastructure fights.

[gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green]

"Willie Nelson has become an unlikely barometer of America's biggest infrastructure fights. He once protested the Keystone XL pipeline and fracking. Today, he's fighting data centers. The American icon's latest cause underscores how the politics surrounding AI infrastructure are beginning to resemble the last decade's fights over fossil fuels."

https://www.axios.com/2026/08/14/data-center-backlash-fossil-fuel-protests