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A left wing activist is being hailed by the liberal media for blocking the creation of a data center in Maryland on the site of a dead shopping mall that has been sitting vacant for 24 years.

The data center would have created thousands of high paying jobs and billions in investment for the local community, but it’s important that everyone stay poor, you know, because progress.

Oh, and she did this with an assist from a group in communist China, which doesn’t want America to build data centers, so that they can dominate this new industry.

National Public Radio is treating the activist like a hero:

The overgrown grass and weeds seem to stretch into the horizon on nearly 90 acres of empty land in Landover, Md. It used to be Landover Mall, but that closed in 2002, and the site has been mostly vacant since.

In 2024, the developer that built the mall won approval from county planners for a $5 billion data center campus, and word began spreading through the largely Black community nearby.

“I was like, ‘Oh, hell no,’” said Taylor Frazier McCollum, describing the moment she learned about the project. She lived less than a mile away from it. “Why would you want to bring water-polluting, diesel-generating data centers right down the street from where people live, work, play? It just didn’t make sense to me.”

Frazier McCollum is one of a number of Americans whose political awakening was triggered by data center development. Across the country, community members have taken to local council hearings to voice their opposition. They’ve prompted — though estimates vary — about 500 moratoriums on data centers nationwide.

In the video below, she explains how she worked with China’s ‘Party for Socialism and Liberation.’ Watch:

She blocked the creation of jobs and wealth. Congratulations?

These are the people who voted for Democrats last week. They have absolutely no understanding of baic economics.

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