Stephen Moore argues that large cloud facilities generate sustained regional investment, construction and blue-collar employment — using Council Bluffs, Iowa and other Midwestern sites as examples.
Google has invested more than $20 billion in Iowa, making Council Bluffs a major data center hub and expanding further with a recent $7 billion commitment.
Data centers create jobs beyond their small permanent headcount: construction work, supplier contracts, and apprenticeship partnerships add measurable local employment and payroll.
Midwestern towns are attracting major tech capital — Meta in Altoona and Microsoft in West Des Moines — changing regional economic patterns.
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These buildings - which, to be clear, are a vital part of the modern tech-based economy and will only grow in importance as the AI boom continues - have suffered a complete collapse in overall public support. Falling approval for data centers has been rapid and sudden. A poll from Heatmap News found significant erosion
“Nothing is driving more new U.S. economic investment or political volatility than data centers,” Axios reports. “They’re the Great Subplot of 2026, THE topic animating the AI race and elections. Everyone needs to understand the size, scope and sentiment surrounding them.” ”It’s almost impossible to wrap your brain aro
The US discussion over datacenters is depressing. Datacenters do not use a lot of water, they produce very useful outputs, they are not a blight on the landscape. All of this is obvious. But I don’t want to restate the obvious. What bothers me most about the discussion is that people seem to think this […] The post Dat
Data centers are fueling US growth, but bipartisan backlash is forcing candidates to run from them before the midterms.
A typical data center employs about 150 workers, but its electricity, water and noise impacts are fueling opposition in communities nationwide
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