To add color, Pew Research from last month on the software side of things: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2026/06/17/americans-an...
But data centers are easy to hate on. They don't provide a lot of jobs, other than initial construction. And being close to a data center has no benefit compared to being far away from a data center.
Seen? They are the primary driver of high prices.
they have all this money, they can afford adhering to stricter requirements
And I'll argue that yours is a rather uninformed and illogical statement. Inflation is the result of the opposite of underinvestment, trying to cure inflation with more investment is like trying to put out fires with gasoline.
The whole logic of raising interest rates is based on reducing the gasoline but that doesn't work for the present kinetic and AI wars which are fueled regardless of cost - interest or otherwise. There's your explanation for the persistent inflation.
> If we electrified like China, there would not be the impact we see.
Chinese consumer inflation is below 1.3% Maybe they know something about not treating everything as a war?