26 Cancellations Later, the Rules of Site Selection Have Changed

$98 billion in delayed or blocked projects in a single quarter, 26 cancellations in two months, and less than half of Americans willing to host a datacenter near them: community opposition has become a structural constraint, not a situational one. Every market from San Marcos to Pennsylvania to Ohio is repricing political risk in real time, and operators still treating this as a permitting problem are solving for the wrong variable.