Nearly a dozen city councils and county boards in greater Minnesota have voted on data center moratoriums. Opacity triggers mobilizationIn North Mankato, Danielle Bollman chose to run for a City Council seat over frustration with data center nondisclosure agreements (NDAs). When the development firm Oppidan explored building a large-scale data center there, city staff quickly agreed to sign an NDA. "They don't care so much about a data center halfway across the state." And a majority of both Democrats and Republicans oppose data center construction for AI in their area, according to Gallup poll results released in May.