Power companies are using eminent domain to seize land for data cente…

Power companies are using eminent domain to seize private land for transmission lines serving AI data centers, despite 70% of Americans opposing data center construction in their communities. The practice raises legal questions about whether private infrastructure can qualify as 'public use' under takings law. If you're building data centre infrastructure or selling power to AI operators, your land acquisition costs just went up—eminent domain seizures are now happening, which means regulators are being forced to define whether private AI infrastructure counts as public use, and that definition will change what you can actually build and where.