Donald Trump says fears that "Data Centers are bad for your neighborhood" echo climate alarms
“The people that say AI is going to destroy the World, and that Data Centers are bad for your neighborhood, are the same people that said, just a short time ago, that the World would be extinguished by ‘Climate Change,’”
Reported September 16, 2026 by legalinsurrection.com. Checked word for word against that report.
President Donald Trump on Monday used Truth Social to challenge growing concerns about artificial intelligence and data centers, linking those warnings to earlier climate-change alarms. Across several posts, he dismissed the fears as false and said pushback against data centers was because the United States is leading other countries. The posts came amid his criticism of calls for more AI regulation and of a request by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to slow AI development. The exchange adds to an ongoing debate over how quickly to build AI and how to handle local effects of data centers, such as electricity, water, and infrastructure pressures, with Trump rejecting what he describes as overstated warnings.
- legalinsurrection.com ↗︎16 SEP 2026