an industry selling pattern recognition suddenly becomes so bad at recognizing one

I think they do recognize the pattern.

With trump, I genuinely don't know if he understands that people don't like him. With the big tech companies, I think they have a pretty good idea of how each individual person feels about these data centers.

Since the midterm elections have just passed, they don't need to worry about how the average voter feels about them for another two years. However, they do need to convince their investors that everything is ok. Between the partial bubble pop in China, the crypto heist, Google's stock drop, and now the republicans losing power, they're spooked