It looks like a maximum security prison so the locals cannot revolt against "AI".

Of course no jobs are created. The data centers are there for cheaper energy, laxer environmental regulations and for the ability to process U.S. citizens' data and build files on them where it would be illegal to do that on U.S. soil.

So these companies receive subsidies like in the U.S. How does the government shutdown affect these subsidies in the U.S.? Are SNAP benefits for corporations being halted as well or does it only affect poor people?

a fence and some rent-a-cops won't stop anything but a trivial revolt