Tech companies dealing with data center protests locally are fighting a losing battle.

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4. About the followers ...

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"Will Dem 'leaders' follow ..."

Some are already. Some are smart enough to learn.

But many, frankly, just aren't connected with reality enough to get it, or else they just don't care. We need to move them out, even if Trump and the Dem Centerists want to call us "communists" and "socialists". The antidote to that name-calling is to talk about specific solutions, like:

"We will fight to pass legislation that requires every new data center to build carbon-neutral energy farms (i.e. wind and solar, maybe eventually fusion) that produce DOUBLE the amount of energy the data centers will consume, and that excess energy will go to the taxpauers directly to lower their electric bills each month."

Now, here's the trick. Democrats instintively jump into "whatabout" mode, raising all sorts of detailed questions about how this might work. Stop. Just don't. Let the Republicans try to attack that proposal. Stick with the big concept that data centers must MORE than pay their way on electrical and water usage. When they want to locate in areas where water is in short supply, make them pay 10 times the consumer rates. If they really want the data centers, then they can move them closer to the coasts and they can pay the energy costs of desalination to get the water they need for their data centers.