Americans sour even more on data centers.

A new report from the Pew Research Centeradds more data pointsto the thingeveryone seems to know by now: data centers arepretty unpopular. Negative marks are up in every category Pew surveyed, with only 4% of respondents thinking that data centers “have a mostly good impact” across the board. Remarkably, in just 7 months, people who say they’ve heard “nothing at all” about data centers dropped from 25% to 12%. Makes sense: they’re big, noisy, and increasingly havenowhere to hide. [Pew Research Center] A free daily digest of the news that matters most.