It seems from recent polls that nearly everyone is. Of course, if data centers go down and the internet and cell phones go dark, Americans will be as angry as hornets.

The big voter concern is that the big data centers won’t pay their own way. Really, the largest concentration of data centers in the world is in Loudoun County, Virginia, led by Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. What have the results been for local residents? This chart says it all. The best thing that can bring jobs and economic development to depressed areas is a data center.