>My question is what Americans think economic growth in the 21st century looks like?

I think they have very rationally concluded there is no economic growth benefiting them in massively consolidated capital building the infrastructure to replace their small businesses and jobs.

How are data centers replacing small businesses? That sounds like a politicians broken speech reader.

They’re literally bringing jobs and paying out the ass, the unions love em [1] and absolutely supercharging local tax revenue, just basic economic growth stuff.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/opinion/data-centers-elec...