You’re damned right they didn’t.
If they didn’t screw up locals power and water prices, they wouldn’t have so much popular blowback. Noise complaints have been a thing about crappy data centers for a long time. Two, employment is just a short surge to build and fit them out. Data centers aren’t employing people long term like non-automated manufacturing hubs. You’re not getting a hundreds of thousands member strong data center workers of America union to champion new builds. I haven’t come across a city where damn near everyone I meet works in relation to a data center. At least not yet. I do find that for damn near every sort of manufacturing/warehouse giant employers
Everything I don’t like is China communism
Both could be true. I wouldn’t be surprised if they are doing it, heck if I were them, it’s a prime opportunity to fan the flames. That doesn’t mean the hate is manufactured or the concerns aren’t valid. The billionaires did this to themselves.
Look mate, the average American is a Racist, even the Liberals who think being Prejudiced about those they see as belonging to <identity> with a “positive” spin is being anti-Racist rather than yet another variant of “they’re all the same” thinking, hence the muppeters who pull the strings of these people use “blame foreigners” arguments to deflect away the blame for the problems caused by the American Power Elites (mainly the billionaires and their political minions)
- “Immigrants” are blamed by the openly Fascist Far-Right (Republicans)
- “Foreign interference” from those the American politicians call “adversaries”, such as Russia or China (never Israel) is blamed by the pro-Oligarchy fine-with-Fascism-abroad Hard-Right (Democrats)
So obviously when the Public Opinion in America naturally turned against Data Centers because of the ton of problems they bring with no real gains for the common people to offset it - all this against the actions of the bought and paid for politicians in favor of the handful of fatcats who do benefit from said Data Centers - the politicians’ knee-jerk reaction was to blame foreigners, because blaming foreigners works spectacularly well with most of the American public, both the Far-Right ones and the muppets who think they’re left-of-center whilst in fact being cheerleaders for Oligarchs and pro-Oligarchy policies.
As it always turns out, just like the “problems” caused by immigrants the impact of “foreign interference” is not even in the same universe of fucking things up in America than the shit that the 100% American “elites” and their 100% American bought and paid for political minions do.
Even when those foreign “adversaries” are activelly trying to negativelly impact America, the impact of their actions is like that of a flea on an elephant compared by what the Americans with the most power do. I would even say that given how things are going in the US the best thing that an adversary nation of America can do in America to fuck it up right now is NOTHING AT ALL as Americans seem to be going full throttle at fucking things up themselves.
