I think that if you compare American sentiment with Chinese sentiment you'll see that these people are really not acting in their own favor. Well, in a certain sense they are, because these companies will basically become massive institutions that share no wealth with the public and have no accountability, but in another sense they are not because without this infrastructure the US will certainly be at risk for invasion and attack by other nations, and will lose its monetary power and thus its high wages and overall global dominance. But then the issue becomes: how do we force these companies to share more wealth with the public, how do we ensure the resources are being utilized effectively and not starving or otherwise impoverishing people for the sake of profit; not, how do we stop the infrastructure from being built in the first place! The Chinese don't have this issue primarily because 1) they have a shit load of energy already, and 2) the CCP is happy to liquidate any individual that seeks personal benefit ahead of that of society as a whole, or at least the CCP itself. And the CCP has well demonstrated to the Chinese people, at this point, that if you follow them you will become wealthier. But that still means that the issue is the public conversation in the US around data centers, and that this propaganda is NOT fighting for American's benefit in any case, since having less infrastructure is not good for anyone. I am sure you can find some remote village in Africa without electricity and try and convince them that electrical lines kill birds that they hunt, and since they've never had electricity before (but they've eaten lots of birds), they'll rally against it. I see virtually no difference between that and your average American right now, except that the Americans are at least conscious enough of the extractavist enterprise which the technologically superior peoples from afar (SFO) are promising will bring wonders. And yet, India still has a more comprehensive rail network than, say, Australia; you can't tell me that isn't a strong factor in their rapid economic development.