While Silicon Valley planned multi-gigawatt compute facilities behind closed doors, citizen-led coalitions blocked commercial rezoning, defended finite municipal drinking aquifers, and forced a nationwide reversal on municipal secrecy.
Can local constitutional voter sovereignty permanently outmatch multi-trillion-dollar AI infrastructure lobbies, or will federal utility overrides attempt to bypass county zoning boards next?
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