Report · Sep 23, 2026
Software Developers on Climate Change, AI, and Sustainable Software: A survey of GitHub users, Summer 2026
By Grace Vorreuter, Paull Young, Marija Verner, Jennifer Marlon, Emily Goddard, Jennifer Carman, Seth Rosenthal and Anthony Leiserowitz
Filed under: Beliefs & Attitudes
8. Support for Local Energy and Data Infrastructure
8.1 Most GitHub users support building solar and wind farms in their local area; most oppose local data centers.
More than eight in ten respondents (84%) support building solar farms in their local area, including 61% who “strongly support” them. About three in four (77%) support building wind farms locally (53% “strongly support”). Two in three (66%) support building nuclear power plants in their local area (39% “strongly support”).
By contrast, a majority of respondents (58%) oppose building data centers in their local area (32% “strongly oppose.” 26% “somewhat oppose”) while fewer than half (37%) support building data centers in their local area.