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Billionaires Claim China Secretly Funds US Data Center Opposition

Tech wealthy blame Chinese influence for local resistance to data center projects.

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Existential criticality
Does the threat involve irreversible systemic failure?
Probability vectoring
Theoretical, or active proof of concept?
Timeline imminence
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