Community Opposition Is Now a Capital Risk: How Smart Organizations Build Stakeholder Support Before Projects Stall
Why the organizations that win are those that turn detractors into advocates—before projects get bogged down In the data center sector alone, $64 billion in U.S. projects have been blocked or delayed by organized community opposition since 2023. Nearly 200 activist groups now coordinate across two dozen states. Microsoft lists “community opposition and hyper-local dissent” […]