President Donald Trump said that communities that oppose data centers "want to end up being backwards and poor."
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Brent D. Griffiths
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During a Cabinet meeting in August 2025, President Donald Trump held up an image of Meta's Hyperion Data Center superimposed over Manhattan to showcase its size.
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