It's incredibly disingenuous to wonder why people would be concerned about projects that:

* Take a bunch of their tax money with no benefit to them

* lower their property value

* Make electricity and water more expensive (both of which make other things they use more expensive also)

* can cause other environmental impacts that raise inconvenience and expenses both directly and indirectly

so some AI douchebags can have a shiny datacenter to enable their bosses' stated desire to replace them with the very same AI might be opposed to the current AI drive datacenter boom.

Whatever actual benefits AI has, or tech in general, the way it is being approached right now is a disgusting and blatant attempt to steal as much as possible from everyone. People don't like that, and the like even less how the people doing it pretend they don't understand the dislike while building bunkers to protect themselves from the anger.

i don't think either of the first two things are generally true (usually tax positive, new usecases generally raise property value).

it sounds like you just want to ban American industry altogether, we've quietly let extreme conservatism sneak up on us in the US it seems.