We’ve seen the data center hysterics before

Published June 4, 2026 9:00am ET



In the mid-1970s, a group of environmental activists created the Clamshell Alliance, a group dedicated to opposing the Seabrook nuclear power plant in New Hampshire. In their 1977 “Declaration of Nuclear Resistance,” they declared an “immediate and permanent halt to the construction and export of nuclear power plants” as they are “wasteful” and an “economic catastrophe.”

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