The AI boom is sometimes compared to the dot-com bubble. Despite the double albatross of Trump’s tariffs and wars, the U.S. continues to chug along, in large part because of the historic contributions of the AI boom. On August 3, the Wall Street Journal put an appropriately hyperbolic headline on this whole situation: “The AI Boom Is Transforming the American Economy Beyond Recognition.” The AI boom desperately needs to build more data centers. The Biggest Source of Anti-Data Center Politics: An Explosion of Citizen DistrustThompson: So narrow antipathy toward AI played a smaller role than expected.