An NBC News investigation profiled the largely unknown private developers building the data centers powering the AI boom that are now absorbing local backlash over power use, land, and pollution normally aimed at household names like Amazon or Microsoft.

In examining where that opposition is coming from, NBC News referenced Alethea's research, first covered by The New York Times, that examined foreign involvement in the data center debate, noting that Russian, Chinese, and Iranian state media have amplified domestic anti-data center discourse. 

As data center projects continue to face fast-moving, often intense public pushback (and in some cases, an uptick in threatening rhetoric directed at the companies and executives behind them) Alethea's research helps organizations tell genuine local opposition apart from coordinated or foreign-linked amplification, so they can respond to real risk quickly and accurately.

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