Poll: Support mixed for data centers, state asked to take lead

North Dakotans see value in having data centers in the state, particularly if developers cover infrastructure costs, but remain split on whether they’d welcome them in their communities, a new North Dakota Poll has found. Poll respondents also said they were more welcoming to traditional data centers – those providing digital services such as messaging, GPS navigation, banking transactions and storage for things like hospital records – than they were data centers primarily used for powering artificial intelligence computations. Among those polled, 57% said they supported the development of traditional data centers, while 19% opposed and 24% were undecided. A total of 45% opposed development of artificial intelligence data centers in North Dakota, compared to 35% who supported that development, with 20% who remained undecided.

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