It is not actually insanse. Sir Winston Churchill also advocated a preventive nuclear war against USSR in the late 1940s. The rapid rise of World Communism, whether in Europe (including record high vote shares in West Europe), in China, Korea, Indochina, other parts of the world, convinced them that the biggest ethical goal was ‘Destruction of USSR’.
Stalin remained a thoroughly criminal despot in this period—the Leningrad Purge, Doctor’s Plot, Night of the Murdered Poets, the establishment of Communist Dictatorships across Eastern Europe, with their own ruthless purges and repressions.
USA had the atomic bomb. It seemed the Only Solution to protect liberty.
Governments are not going to ban or obstruct data center buildout, given the immense power of Big Tech, the vast amounts of finance involved (which is going to increase), and geopolitical completion.
If it needs to be done, it cannot be done by legal methods, by lobbying or campaigning, but only by Force.