A growing bipartisan revolt against data centers, plus a warning that AI will gut white-collar jobs and trigger an economic crisis within a few years.

• Local opposition to data centers is exploding: 7 in 10 Americans say they would oppose one near their home, and more would rather live next to a nuclear plant.
• Near Lake Tahoe, Nevada Energy is cutting power to 50,000 homes next year to feed data centers instead, with no public vote.
• Tucker Carlson hammered Kevin O'Leary over a 40,000-acre Utah project, arguing the approval came from just three rural county commissioners easily swayed by Google and Amazon money.
• Zach Exley of New Consensus argues AI will soon replace anyone whose job runs on a computer — the only remaining barriers are mundane fixes like better memory and screen access, already being solved.
• He predicts whole industries will collapse — consulting, finance, insurance, management — because companies will run the same AI tools themselves, and even CEOs will be cut.
• Capitalism needs customers to function, and mass layoffs of knowledge workers, including the top 20% who drive most consumer spending, would trigger a self-reinforcing demand collapse like the pre-WWII depressions.
• His pitch to the left: when the AI bubble pops, do not bail out the failing companies — buy up the data centers cheap and run them as public infrastructure.

Outlook: Expect grassroots fights against individual data centers to keep growing through 2026, while the bigger question of mass white-collar job loss starts shaping the 2028 presidential field.