Data centers upend a lot of our background assumptions about how new industrial installations work. A single hyperscale facility can draw as much electricity as a midsize city while employing relatively few people. The Michigan facility, for example, will consume enough power to serve roughly one million homes, while the most generous employment projections suggest a maximum of 450 jobs. Local communities provide land, electricity, water, roads, and public subsidy. The benefits that return are thin, narrowly distributed, and often speculative. When executives and governors call these facilities “campuses,” they borrow the moral authority of institutions that belong to communities. Universities and hospitals justify their presence through enduring obligations to students, patients, workers, and neighbors. To describe an industrial server warehouse as a campus is to appropriate that legitimacy while bypassing moral obligations.