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Data Centers Will Turn Red States Blue

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Posted By: Hazymac, 6/9/2026 10:51:59 AM

It won’t happen overnight, and it won’t happen in Washington. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) won’t have anything to do with it. And neither will the DNC, at least directly. But it will happen. America’s most rural states have the smallest and easiest-to-change voter bases. In the end, it’s just a numbers game. All these states need is more leftists to move in, and the states will flip from red to blue. Up until now, though, the problem has been giving leftists a reason to want to live in a state like Wyoming, the Dakotas, or Idaho. Enter data centers. The Wall Street Journal has reported on one such example where Wyoming

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Reply 1 - Posted by: philsner 6/9/2026 10:58:45 AM (No. 2114400)
Ignorance is the most expensive commodity.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: philsner 6/9/2026 11:05:46 AM (No. 2114402)
And - previously posted.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: davew 6/9/2026 11:35:48 AM (No. 2114421)
More propaganda from Chinese influencers to prevent the AI buildout in the US. Fear worked with oil pipelines, and it might work again with AI infrastructure.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: nelsonted1 6/9/2026 11:36:54 AM (No. 2114423)
Why not put data centers in broken down cities like Detroit? There are miles of empty land in some of the cities. They are often close to rivers whose water could be used for cooling. If there are good homes in the way hire a house mover to move them. What's the downside?
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Reply 5 - Posted by: J. Arthur Brown 6/9/2026 11:48:18 AM (No. 2114428)
The employment figures in the article are for laborers involved in the construction of the facility. Once constructed data centers notoriously afford relatively few employment opportunities.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: HerbVA 6/9/2026 11:58:38 AM (No. 2114433)
I live in Loudoun County, Virginia, ground zero for data centers. They all have extremely small parking lots because they actually don’t have many employees.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: privateer 6/9/2026 11:58:59 AM (No. 2114435)
Which will probably be awarded to low-wage H-1B invaders.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: red1066 6/9/2026 12:14:43 PM (No. 2114440)
REALLY? I live in the stupid state of Maryland, it's as blue as California. Just the suggestion of a data center where I live caused signs to go up everywhere saying, NO DATA CENTER. In this case, it's not just the amount of power needed for these things, but the amount of water that is needed to cool the equipment. Many people are worried that people in the area that use well water are going to have their wells dry up because of the huge amount of water needed to cool the place.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Mizz Fixxit 6/9/2026 12:52:03 PM (No. 2114454)
Liberals elites who say they oppose data centers are liars as they are heavily invested in liberal big tech companies. They want unlimited AI data center construction in rural red states, none in their backyards.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: robertthomason 6/9/2026 5:34:46 PM (No. 2114539)
I don't live in Wyoming, so I don't know how many people who live there would work in these data centers or how many Wyoming natives would move back home to work in these data centers. There is no indication that Tim knows either. Having served in the military I'm familiar with the word "assume." Maybe Tim should also familiarize himself with the word.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: mifla 6/10/2026 7:32:51 AM (No. 2114770)
This reminds me of the internet craze where providers rushed to build networks costing billions. Then they discovered that supply greatly exceeded demand due to the fact that no one had applications to sell (hence, the term vaporware), and the whole thing came crashing down.
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