An $11 billion Amazon Web Services data center campus
Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560: Why We Need to “Relentlessly” Make the Blue State-Red State Case
November 5, 2026
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Glennon raised the stakes of the moment in broader civilizational terms: “This election in Illinois is not about the usual pedestrian issues… it’s about nothing less than whether Western civilization survives in our democratic republic of America because [the left], just on the open border alone, will destroy the country, and now they’re bringing in the jihadists, frankly, into the party.” Audio and summary linked here.Audio and summary linked here.
New Trier High School made national headlines nine years ago as a “canary in a coal mine” for political indoctrination in public schools. The canaries lived.
Among the consequences of economic growth that badly lags national averages are billions of lost revenue every year. Yet denial reigns in Illinois, fueling the vicious cycle of demand for higher taxes.
All these data centers already built but no meaningful solutions for important problems yet. Still no cure for cancer, no breakthroughs in solid state batteries for EV’s or motors that don’t require rare earths from China, no solutions for reducing pollution. It’s almost like they’re doing this to build a totalitarian surveillance society or something.
Amazon is also in the process of constructing a 10 mil data center in Montgomery County, Mo.
Another win for IN. Another reason we left IL for IN.
The utter futility of our elected officials
to direct this state and its cities without
common sense and over taxation is
criminal. The combined mental capacity
of the state and city politicians to govern
is exceeded by the common garden slug,
with apologies to garden slugs world wide.
Building anything is 3x the cost in Illinois and maintaining and staffing it is like walking down the the dark hallway to meet Jason….
$11 billion project, while Illinois and Chicago scratch their whatever on what to do on data centers.
IL showed no such hesitation when it came to the failed Lion Electric company or pushed for the Chinese Communist connected Goton in Manteno, though.
Pretty sure those companies had massive contributions to Pritzker and Strattons’ campaigns. Quid pro quo nothing to see here