If there’s a true populist issue built for this moment in time, it might be opposition to AI data centers. Lawmakers and candidates from both parties across states are increasingly positioning themselves as critics of data center proliferation.
And recent primary results suggest it’s a pretty potent issue.
There is, however, one big exception to the growing political stampede away from data centers: President Donald Trump and his administration officials, who are bear-hugging them.
It’s merely the latest political head-scratcher from the president, given the growing volume of polls showing just how much Americans hate data centers and overwhelmingly don’t seem to want them in their communities.
Trump’s defenses of data centers have grown substantially in recent weeks. He’s not only pitched them as vital to competing with China on artificial intelligence, but as win-wins for the US communities that welcome them.
