Nearly 75 Percent Of State Voters Oppose Data Centers - Northern Plains Independent

Power, housing and public opinion: The hurdles between eastern Montana and its first data center

Data centers have been a divisive point of conversation throughout most of 2026, but as they continue proliferating across the nation, one thing seems likely: they are going to come to eastern Montana eventually. Whether that's a good or a…

Nearly 75 Percent Of State Voters Oppose Data Centers - Northern Plains Independent

Nearly three-quarters of registered voters in Montana oppose data centers being built in their city or in a neighboring county. That’s according to a new Montana Free Press-Rutgers Eagleton poll conducted from Aug. 27 to Sept. 7. Democrats in the state, according to the poll, are more likely to be strongly opposed to new data centers than independent voters or Republicans, but opposition was considerable