Donald Trump supports data centers, linking them to jobs and prosperity. He warns communities rejecting them face economic decline and poverty. This stance emerges as US data center construction faces significant public resistance. Similar opposition is also growing in India over environmental and economic concerns. Trump's position risks alienating some of his own political supporters.

The president says people opposing data centers are “backwards and poor.”

A majority of Americans oppose construction of data centers in their local areas, according to a 2026 Gallup survey.

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