Justin J. Pearson on data centers: “It’s the clearest example of the billionaire class attacking the rest of us, forcing things into our communities without our wish, our will, or our desire to the point that they’re now taking our fresh drinking water to cool these data centers. To take the jobs of graphic designers, attorneys, journalists. We’re being told by the president and these billionaires and Elon Musk this is just necessary, just take it. This is literally choking the life out of the people in our communities. We’re being told we must sacrifice our lives for the benefit of NVIDIA, Elon Musk and SpaceXAI, Microsoft or Google. I don’t think that’s a tradeoff everyday people are willing to make”