[usefulcat]

Is it really that difficult to believe that these residents—many of whom are living out in the country by choice—really just don’t want this kind of development near them? And that they have taken action of their own volition?

I laughed out loud at the suggestion that rural Texans are reading Politico, or any other “elite media” for that matter. I say this as someone who has lived in TX for decades.

ETA: to be fair, I'm not saying that what you describe never happens, but no way is this an example of it.

[JuniperMesos]

Yeah, there probably are some rural people who just reflexively oppose any kind of construction, NIMBYs are everywhere. The psyop is Politico writing an article in support of them, instead of comparing what they're doing to redlining or some other historic phenomenon that the Politico writers see as racist against nonwhites.

[jmye]

Yes, not wanting a data center is the same as fucking red-lining. What an astronomically bullshit argument and false equivalence. What a stunning display of intellectual dishonesty.

[bit-anarchist]

I think they mean to say that Politico is the kind of company to pull this bullshit spin when it is convenient.

Not that excuses your astronomical lack of decorum.