That's facile. Such statements are clearly a synecdoche for the phenomena of well-organized grassroots campaigns getting steamrolled by massively-funded advertising from PACs, or popular votes/referenda being overridden or stymied by small numbers of electeds. Anyone who is politically active has seen numerous examples of this: here's a recent one from Utah: https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2026/05/04/box-elder-commission...
There is a lot of corruption in political systems and false equivalences such as the above do not help.
What is the corruption you are alleging here? I live in Salt Lake City and I haven't heard any arguments against that data center that don't boil down to some kind of conspiracy theory or just a fundamental lack of understanding of scale and engineering. Are you claiming that the commissioners were bribed?
Why build data centers in water scarce, often hot deserts?
Perhaps folks are also upset the DCs will host AI that may affect their job prospects or at least compensation?
Isn't the salt lake an environmental disaster waiting to happen, especially as it is drained for more development?
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All no doubt true and none of it contradicts my point.