Donald Trump, speaking alongside cryptocurrency leaders at the White House this week, made a statement that Republican and Democratic candidates alike wouldn’t touch with a 10-foot pole.

“If I were the mayor of a town or the governor of a state, and I had a chance to get a big plant in, an AI plant or a data center,” Trump said, “I would absolutely want it because the jobs are enormous and the money paid, the taxes paid, are just enormous.”

It’s not the kind of message anyone is using in competitive midterm races.

The race to build data centers, which power artificial intelligence and cloud computing, has run aground amid frustration from voters who don’t want to live near the massive warehouse campuses. Even the Senate Republicans’ campaign arm warned that anger over data centers — some of which dwarf football stadiums and use more energy than small cities — could cost them a seat.

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[–] 13 points 2 months ago

Well yeah. As long as the tech oligarchs keep kissing his fat, stinky ass and giving him big piles of money, he'll follow them anywhere.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Trump will endorse anything, if you pay him enough.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    They must really think their gerrymandering and voter suppression endgame has been achieved for them to push this bullshit through.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Ya because he gets gifts and money doing so.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    The U.S. already had enough data centers for websites like YouTube; all this new data center construction is going to power more AI slop, all the while harming the environment and making consumer electronics needlessly expensive.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Maybe he knows the fix is in?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Trump isn’t picky about what he embraces.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Because there is no midterm lmfao

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