AI has created enormous demand for new data centers, and many communities do not want them nearby. The Rothbardian answer is not blanket permission or blanket prohibition, but a property-rights framework and the return of market forces that government policy has largely displaced.
Connor O'Keeffe
Connor O’Keeffe (@connorokeeffe) writes a weekly column for the Mises Wire, hosts Guns & Butter a weekly podcast on current trends, and co-hosts the Power & Market podcast. He has a master’s in economics and a bachelor’s in geology.
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Post-Massie America -
A Rothbardian Case Against Bad Data Center Policy -
Bad Inflation Data Drops While Trump’s in China (And Other Headlines) -
Progressives and Conservatives Are Wrong About Taxing the Rich -
Unnatural Disasters: How the State Makes Wildfires Bigger and Deadlier -
The Great Gerrymander War
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How Antitrust Populists Drove Spirit Airlines Out of Business -
Rothbard Was Right: Libertarians Must Never Warm to the Warfare State -
War Doesn’t Stop the Casinofication of the American Economy -
The American People Should Not Be Forced to Fund Israel’s Atrocities
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Is a Ceasefire Happening? + Should Christians be Socialist? -
The Economic Destruction of Trump’s War Goes Far Beyond High Gas Prices
