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# Americans agree on one thing: data centers matter
- URL: https://adjacent.media/signals/americans-agree-on-one-thing-data-centers-matter/
- Published: 2026-07-15T23:06:25.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-15T23:06:25.000Z
- Description: Across partisan divides, there’s emerging consensus that data infrastructure is critical infrastructure worth protecting and investing in.
- Author: Jonathan Greene
- Tags: #signal, theme-connected, infrastructure, data centers, policy consensus

Source: [NextDraft](https://open.substack.com/pub/managingeditor/p/left-right-and-center)

Across partisan divides, there's emerging consensus that data infrastructure is critical infrastructure worth protecting and investing in. This alignment likely reflects both the invisible ubiquity of cloud computing in daily life and concrete economic incentives—jobs, tax revenue, grid resilience—that cut across red and blue geographies. Data center policy is one of the few areas where local officials and constituents share aligned stakes rather than compete on symbolic grounds.