People are generating wealth, and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) wants to put a stop to it. First on social media and now on Sunday TV shows, Sanders has called for a “moratorium” on all data center construction until “democracy” can “catch up” with technological change. Like so many of his proposals, this one would inflict real economic damage while undermining U.S. national security.

Sanders’s first concern about the trillions of dollars being invested in computing infrastructure is, of course, that some people are getting rich doing it.