Ensuring America's Next Era of Growth Benefits Workers and Communities
The American Infrastructure Alliance is the first national coalition uniting labor and business behind responsible infrastructure that strengthens our economy, creates good jobs, and puts communities first.
About the Alliance
Data centers are the infrastructure of this era of American growth. They provide access to the internet, artificial intelligence, and the digital economy that hundreds of millions of Americans rely on every day.
The American Infrastructure Alliance is the first of its kind: a nationwide coalition of labor and business focused on establishing responsible, enforceable guardrails for data center development at the state and local level.. We believe development can bring real, lasting benefits to states, communities, and workers, but it needs to begin with common-sense, locally-grounded standards, not by implementing a one-size-fits-all template.
What We've Found
AIA has conducted national, state, and local polling and focus groups. Although initial support for data center development is low, majorities nationally – in every state surveyed and across party lines – support data centers when projects include strong safeguards and meaningful community benefits.
Republicans
Independents
Democrats
GAIN
+36
+26
+42
+40
58%
would be more likely to vote for a candidate who supports data center requirements
54%
support data centers when companies commit in writing to protect ratepayers, water, and environmental resources
64%
support data center development with guardrails or where approved
GAIN
+43
+35
+38
+45
+47
+50
+43
Our Members
Our Focus
Responsible Growth
We support the local investment and jobs that infrastructure projects bring, paired with enforceable protections for ratepayers, water resources, and communities. Growth should strengthen local businesses, generate revenue for schools and infrastructure, and create lasting jobs — not take shortcuts that leave communities behind.
Communities Come First
Large energy users should pay their own way. Smart policy makes sure data center developers fund the power and water infrastructure their projects require, so residents aren't left holding the bill.
A Competitive Advantage, With Accountability
Data centers help keep America at the cutting edge of important technologies, including artificial intelligence, weather forecasting, healthcare tools, disaster response, and precision farm management – strengthening our economy. That leadership should come with transparency and oversight, so growth stays sustainable.
Give, Not Take
Growth should benefit communities. That means real agreements on noise, lighting, construction, and distance from homes and tangible, lasting community benefits that ensure data centers’ neighbors share their success.
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Our Members
For the first time, business and labor partners across seven states are working together under one shared set of standards.
