There’s a boom happening in Umatilla, Oregon. A place that once had more dust than dollars.
Today? It’s a digital gold rush.
A wave of Amazon data centers has transformed the sleepy town into an AI boomtown. Home prices have doubled. Jobs are pouring in. Yesenia Leon-Tejeda, once a warehouse worker, is now a thriving real estate agent, building her dream home on the Columbia River.
It’s the kind of story America loves to tell.
But here’s the question nobody’s asking: What happens to the rest of the country?
Because while Umatilla rises, millions of others are falling.
Welcome to the K-shaped economy.
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