"Let data reign": Trump and AI investors wage campaign to save data centers

President Trump has a new message for Americans rebelling over the nation's data-center boom: Get over it. "If we kill the Golden Goose, you will only have yourselves to blame," Trump warned Monday. Why it matters: Nine weeks out from the midterms, the president is charging into a fight Republicans have been scrambli

Trump argued that data centers will make communities "successful and rich."

President Donald Trump warned that a growing public backlash to data centers in the US poses an economic threat to communities that oppose new infrastructure needed to power artificial intelligence and risks giving China the upper hand in the AI race.

Some national labor unions are opposing AI data center bans and moratoriums in the US. Noah Berger/Getty Images via Amazon Web Services The AI industry needs electricians, plumbers, and construction workers to build its data centers. As a result, the tradespeople are commanding high salaries. Some national labor union

Roy Cooper celebrated data center growth as North Carolina governor, but his Senate campaign now targets their energy use as a rate hike driver.