News Summary

• Data centers, which provide compute for large AI platforms, have come under scrutiny in recent weeks.
• Tech leaders across the country are full of ideas about why Americans are in a furor against data centers.
• "Most explanations of why datacenters are actually fine boil down to simple math," Yishan Wong, Reddit's former CEO, wrote on X.
• Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan took to X on Friday to signal boost a theory that "CCP state media, a Shanghai-based Marxist's nonprofit network, and foreign billionaire dark money" are influencing an advocacy campaign.