American technological infrastructure is the building block for our modern lives. Data centers are not some side issue or a fringe zoning dispute; they account for a significant part of the physical foundation of the American economy. They are the functional infrastructure that can put the United States in a position to reindustrialize and onshore our economy, while allowing us to have the tools we need to compete with China. The loudest forces working to stop that buildout fall into exactly two categories: people who are simply misinformed about what these facilities actually do, and people who are being actively used, wittingly or not, to psyop American communities into fighting against their own country’s interests. Every generation has an infrastructure fight. Some generations argued over interstate highway buildouts. Others, tragically, thanks to a very similar hysteria, set America back on the nuclear energy front by half a century. Today, the NIMBY fight is over a big warehouse full of computer servers, known as a data center, and whether America can keep building the physical machinery that runs our new innovation age.