Tech millionaires claim China is behind a wave of local opposition to U.S. data centers, while providing little direct evidence.

Tech millionaires claim China is behind a wave of local opposition to U.S. data centers, while providing little direct evidence.

“China is a common and comfortable boogeyman in American politics, for right or for wrong,” one political scientist told Fortune.

ST. GEORGE, Utah — Residents from a state starving for water have become the face of local struggles against Big Tech, locked in protests against a proposed data center that at…