The AI data center boom is bad for workers and homeowners, and good for tech billionaires like Elon Musk who want to replace labor and grab cheap land and power.

• Bernie Sanders and AOC introduced a bill to pause AI data center construction, which has Musk and tech allies pushing back hard.
• Data centers create temporary construction jobs but few permanent ones, since they need almost no staff to run.
• Musk and other billionaires keep people distracted with culture war fights while pushing AI and robots designed to replace workers.
• Trump and tech CEOs, including Eric Trump, are in China chasing chip, AI, and crypto deals, even as the MAGA base blames China for lost jobs.
• The White House is pushing a $1.5 trillion military budget, much of it flowing to data center and tech contracts.
• In Georgia, power companies are using eminent domain to seize homes and yards to run high-voltage lines to new data centers, offering homeowners lowball deals.

Outlook: Data center expansion and the fight over land, power, and jobs will keep growing, with workers and local homeowners losing ground unless lawmakers step in.