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You\u2019re reading\u00a0American Thinker<\/em>, so you\u2019re aware of a groundswell of opposition to data centers by people displaying the pseudo-religious fervor employed by Green New Deal proponents. Data Centers are going to destroy the environment! They\u2019ll use all the energy and all the water! Dogs and cats living together! Trump!<\/p>

Read more Blind, evil, crazy, stupid: A field guide to modern leftists<\/a><\/p>\n

Many companies are trying to build data centers in Wyoming, our least populous state, with only around 600,000 residents and lots of open land. Most proposals have been welcomed, but opposition remains, largely due to fears about water use and, to a slightly lesser degree, a potential lack of electricity.<\/p>\n

The latter is being addressed by developers building their own power plants, including mini nuclear reactors. The water issue? Totally contrived. Golf courses, among other\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0users of water, require far more than data centers, which can recycle much of the water they require:<\/p>\n

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In this issue, as with others, it\u2019s always smart and necessary to consider cui bono\u2014who benefits? A perennial Wyoming problem is that far too many young people grow up in a great state but have difficulty finding careers. Data centers fill that void, which is why so many towns are embracing them. They\u2019re also necessary to service the AI boom and to protect national security. That\u2019s why this is predictable:<\/p>\n

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Graphic: X Post<\/p>\n

Who\u00a0coulda thunk it? Our primary geopolitical enemy is manipulating public opinion for their benefit, knowing America is just full of useful idiots like Communist Bernie Sanders:<\/p>\n

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Graphic: X Post<\/p>\n

And \u201cdata-center operators enriching themselves at the public expense?\u201d Not quite. While some operators may get temporary tax advantages for building in some places, what the Chinese Communist bots are talking about is capitalism. People who can put together enough money can build industries that employ great numbers of people to build, operate, and maintain them, which also provides jobs for their suppliers and the suppliers of the suppliers, and so on.<\/p>\n

Sure, the capitalists who operate those industries make a lot of money, but the alternative is communism and the misery, shared poverty, and mass death it causes. The Chinese have partially embraced capitalism because they know communism doesn\u2019t work, but they\u2019ve kept communism\u2019s murderous social control mechanisms, the very mechanisms contemporary American socialists\/communists are promising to immediately implement when they take power and eliminate the useful idiots that put them in power. They\u2019re not saying that last part out loud. They call them \u201cuseful idiots\u201d for good reasons.<\/p>\n

Chinese bots aren\u2019t the only source of opposition to data centers:<\/p>\n

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Graphic: X Post<\/p>\n

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I follow this stuff professionally, yet even I had to have a colleague share a link on X \u2014 no mainstream media source, naturally \u2014 to learn about Hao and her little tiny error.<\/p>\n

Even though she “discovered” her mistake in November of 2025<\/em>, the whole data center controversy didn’t gain steam until the summer of 2026.<\/p>

Read more After three assassination attempts, suspected leaks at Secret Service<\/a><\/p>\n

Something stinks \u2014 and here is\u00a0Blume Industries\u00a0to explain: “Just gonna remind you the journo who produced the bogus water data for data centers now lives in Hong Kong. I’m sure you’re smart enough to figure it out from there.”<\/p>\n

So yeah, I’m completely comfortable calling the sprang-up-outta-nowhere data center “debate” a Communist Chinese psyop to\u00a0kneecap\u00a0our high-tech edge over the People’s Republic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So, 100,000% wrong? Probably just an inadvertent rounding error.<\/p>\n

Cui bono.\u00a0The Chinese have, with the willing help of useful idiot Democrats, infiltrated our universities, industries, and even our government, stealing all manner of secrets they\u2019re using to fuel their military buildup. Surely the information they\u2019re stealing reveals how far ahead of them we are in AI, and how far ahead we\u2019ll become with the proliferation of data centers. The 200,000 bot plot X discovered certainly isn\u2019t their only bot farm, and certainly not the only one dedicated to crippling American progress. Data centers and the AI they serve are only one aspect of our technological and economic superiority over China and our other enemies.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no need to see commies under every bed, but Communists are masters of propaganda and espionage, and among Democrats, and even credulous Republicans, find a more than willing cohort of useful idiots. Salena Zito is not among them:<\/p>\n

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Graphic: X Post<\/p>\n

That\u2019s another aspect of China\u2019s coldish war against us. Damaging Americans\u2019 economic might and destroying our social cohesion are essential elements of Democrat\/communist subversion.<\/p>\n

We should certainly do whatever is necessary to ensure we have more than enough energy for our current and future needs, just as we must ensure more than adequate water resources. But with intelligent planning, and the understanding that our foreign and domestic enemies are actively working to destroy us, we can do both.<\/p>\n

Become a subscriber and get our weekly Friday newsletter with unique content from our editors.\u00a0These essays alone are worth\u00a0<\/em>the cost of the subscription.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Mike McDaniel is a USAF veteran, classically trained musician, Japanese and European fencer, lifelong athlete, firearm instructor, retired police officer, and high school and college English teacher. He is a published author and blogger. His home blog is<\/em>\u00a0Stately McDaniel Manor.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>

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