To be fair, AI data center hate seems to be pretty bipartisan.

Yet so is support for it from politicians.

I suspect that the only people supporting them are simply on the take

Bingo.

Same with Ukraine support: Putin’s bullshit machine convinced idiots and their reps and now we’re half against Ukraine.

It’s the out of control growth, instant need, exempting themselves from pollution and noise controls, lack of respect for existing resources ….. it’s the way and the speed datacenters for LLMs are being pushed.

Datacenters are an important part of modern society but they are also high impact on the local economy so need to be planned accordingly.