As many celebrate the start of the New Year, the beginning of 2026 has illustrated that political and religious conflict continues whatever the date may be.

The number of artificial intelligence (AI) data centres being constructed in the United States is growing at an incredible pace, with business leaders like Brookfield CEO, Bruce Platt, saying that they can’t be built quick enough. But, as each new data centre goes up, there appears to be an increasing resistance to these operations. AI data centres require enormous amounts of power to drive them, and even more water to cool the tightly-packed processing units. Recently, a gro