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The president's embrace of data centers comes amid growing backlash over their impact on communities and pushback from governors from both parties.
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The president's embrace of data centers comes amid growing backlash over their impact on communities and pushback from governors from both parties.
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President Trump defended the expansion of data centers in an interview with his former fixer, Michael Cohen, that aired in full on Sunday. Why it matters: Trump's support comes as data centers face growing backlash in both red and blue states. What he's saying: Trump told Cohen during their interview that the U.S. was leading China in AI "by a lot" and that data centers were not taking power from the grid. "They're making their own power plants. They're building the most beautiful, you've never seen power plants like this," Trump said during the interview that was recorded last week. "Commu...
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