IN FOCUS_ The data center panic is built on distortions, myths, and lies ( Jay Caruso - WASHINGTON EXAMINER )

WASHINGTON EXAMINER

The data center panic is built on distortions, myths, and lies

By Jay Caruso
Published August 26, 2026 2:00pm ET

Alexandra Crawford holds a sign outside a planning commission meeting on Thursday, June 11, 2026, in Nashville, Tennessee. The commission will consider an ordinance regulating data centers. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

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There is a difference between a policy argument and a lie. The data center panic sweeping politics is mostly the second thing wearing the costume of the first.

Tax policy, immigration, healthcare: Reasonable people build competing arguments out of the same set of facts, shading emphasis to fit their priors. What’s happening with data centers is not that. It’s a fear campaign built on claims that don’t withstand scrutiny by the evidence, aimed at a piece of infrastructure most people have never seen or understood, which is exactly why it works. People are far more willing to believe the worst about the unknown than the best, and someone has figured out how to profit from that instinct.

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