Tech tries a new message: You'd love data centers if China wasn't making you hate data centers

Some Americans are pushing back against data centers.

Some tech leaders think anti-AI sentiment is the result of a "psyop".

Bloomberg/Getty Images Americans don't agree on much.

Except for data centers, which they now overwhelmingly oppose.

Some tech leaders think that's because Chinese manipulators have duped the country.

It sure is convenient to blame other nations when your fellow citizens don't agree with you.

But it's not terribly helpful.

Everyone* hates data centers now.

How did that happen? There are lots of theories: People are worried about the environment.

Or electric bills.

Or their jobs.

Or imperious Big Tech billionaires ordering them around.

All of the above.

Also: It's China's fault.