Trump AI Data Centers Divide GOP

Trump's AI data center push faces GOP caution and local backlash.

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At the G20 Innovation Ministerial in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick urged governments to adopt U.S. artificial intelligence systems and expand the data centers needed to run them. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman joined the summit’s AI-focused program on Wednesday. The push landed amid a growing U.S. backlash over data center construction, after President Donald Trump posted Monday in support of projects nationwide and Sen. John Fetterman endorsed that position. Sen. Ted Cruz said China is encouraging U.S. opposition to slow America’s AI infrastructure buildout.

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