> It’s really hard to explain that centers aren’t bad and are actually far more efficient than the alternatives.

This isn't about efficiency, power, water, or fire. AT ALL.

Massive amounts of people have their jobs and livelihood threatened. The datacenters, which are enabling that, are being deployed in their neighborhoods while everyone in that neighborhood goes jobless. There is no plan of relief in the form of better economic policy, UBI, less taxation of actual humans, or anything else. That is the real crux of what is being fought.