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AOC’s ‘dirty water’ trick feeds the left’s delusional data-center panic

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stole the show at a recent congressional hearing with two jars of brown water. 

She explained that the dirty water had come from Morgan County, Ga., where a Meta data center is allegedly tainting the water of local residents. 

It was an image perfectly suited to driving the intensifying opposition to data centers in that it was photogenic, easy to understand — and misleading. 

According to reporting in The New York Times last year, the water problem has affected four homes in the vicinity of the data center, not the entire county, as AOC implied.

It stands to reason that the construction of the data center disturbed the private wells of these homes (the problems started when Meta broke ground), but that could happen with any construction project. 

As a gesture of goodwill, Meta should replace the wells.

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But the PR damage has already been done. 

The growing animus to data centers is as irrational as the campaign to stop nuclear power, which had........

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