> Jobs in places where there usually aren't any ... a huge jolt of new economic activity.

This is the incorrect analysis because it is not what is happening. If you can understand this, you can start to understand the resistance. Data centers are a tangible proxy to Ai and the Oligarchy. They look like the globalization, financialization, and deregulation that wrecked the economies they had prior - on steroids.

I've seen this happening in rural Louisiana with my own eyes and ears.