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▲ gregates 2 hours ago

Mostly yes. Everyone would also prefer that steel mills semiconductor fabs get built somewhere else, where they personally don't have to deal with any of the externalities.

▲fdsjgfklsfd 2 hours ago | parent [-]

But these voters don't know about that. They only care about what social media memes told them to care about.

▲gregates 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't know why people voted for this. Probably something to do with all the big tech CEOs visibly paying bribes and tribute to the corrupt and massively unpopular president. I doubt the anti-data-center backlash is as extreme without that.

But also just NIMBY. No one likes to live near industry.

To get this big a backlash, you need a variety of reasons to oppose that appeal to a broad coalition of voters. Inevitably some of those reasons will be silly (a lot of people talked themselves into voting for a 2nd term for Trump, after all!).