On his “I Protest” Substack, Donald Jeffries wonders about data centers and their potential effects on American liberty, writing:

Polls seem to show that more than two thirds of people oppose these potentially liberty-threatening data centers. The people rarely show such good sense. They did just return Lindsey Graham to office, after all. So maybe more tiny ripples of hope. Time magazine called it a “populist backlash.” I’d love to think there was a populist backlash over some part of all this crime and corruption. Much as the political support for AI data centers is bipartisan, so is the opposition on the part of the public. The New York Times called it “the most bipartisan issue since beer.” The Washington Post acknowledged that the people are irate about these “energy guzzling behemoths,” but attempted to rationalize, state controlled media-style, the disconnect between the “representatives” and those who keep irrationally voting for them. Of course, they can’t do that, but nobody reads those newspapers anymore, anyhow. You can’t really have a “populist backlash” without a free press. Which we obviously don’t have.

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