And you're 100% ok if it were being built immediately outside your window, right?

Is it really that difficult to believe that these residents—many of whom are living out in the country by choice—really just don’t want this kind of development near them? And that they have taken action of their own volition?

I laughed out loud at the suggestion that rural Texans are reading Politico, or any other “elite media” for that matter. I say this as someone who has lived in TX for decades.

ETA: to be fair, I'm not saying that what you describe never happens, but no way is this an example of it.

I'm getting a shill vibe from the shill accusation.

This is incredible. On the range from zero to multiple layers of irony it's a great read regardless of where it lands.

Data-center advocacy is so clearly a psyop driven by members of the elite techbro class (i.e. the kinds of people who write comments like these), who are scared of the middle class. I wish the US had better constitutional protections for people who want to protect their quality of life and their jobs in spite of short-sighted or malicious billionaire opposition.