I worry this may be a real problem though because there is not any real distinction in the messaging.

I work in a small data center. Its a 50x100 ft or so room with a few dozen racks of servers in a non descript old telco building. Not a giant water and energy sucking monster.

A bunch of the anti-data center propaganda on social media doesn't make this distinction and it makes it sound like they don't know what tf they're talking about, especially given that they're posting it on a platform powered by data centers and pretty much every internet-based service they use goes through a data center. Even well known leftist accounts are doing this, and they need to get better about clarifying their message because the way they're promoting it right now makes everyone associated with them look stupid

Considering this, I'm even more against data centers 😁