A preponderance of the homes which have been hosting “no data centers” yard signs have also sprouted extreme leftist Democrat yard signs in the runup to the state primaries.
0% of the signs with no data center signs have Republican candidate signs whether RINO or MAGA.
Nuff said.
Liberals state various reasons for opposing data centers but the real one is they sense that building more data centers will give the United States on advantage over rivals like China. And of course we can’t have that.
It was the same deal with nuclear. They had public reasons like safety and the environment but the real reason was nuclear energy would have boosted Western economies. They knew nuclear would help the West out-compete their beloved USSR so they opposed it.
AI also weighs heavy on leftist minds because their materialism leads them to believe that a true sentient intelligence can be built with computer technology. After all, a mind is just a machine, right?
So their fearful imaginings of a brilliantly evil and self-aware AI capable of dominating humanity — after being unleashed on the world by greedy corporations — run wild and they oppose it.