“BACKWARDS AND POOR”: TRUMP’S MESSAGE TO TOWNS THAT REJECT DATA CENTERS President Trump says communities that reject data centers are choosing to be “backward and poor.” He calls them the “golden goose” and argues China “could not be happier” to see Americans push back against the AI buildout. The... message is clear: stop asking questions. Accept the data centers in your community, or you are helping Beijing win. But public opposition is growing across party lines. Communities are raising concerns about water use, power demand, land, and the local cost of a massive AI infrastructure boom. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says those concerns are foreign propaganda. “Data centers don’t use water,” he claims. That is a major reversal from Lutnick’s own position last year, when he acknowledged that data centers “suck water.” Now, anyone who says the same is accused of repeating enemy propaganda. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory estimated that U.S. data centers directly consumed roughly 17 billion gallons of water in 2023, before the current AI buildout accelerated. Yes, America is competing with China in artificial intelligence. But invoking China should not end the conversation about what this buildout costs local communities. Mike Adams (HealthRanger) joins me to break down the data-center push, the water question, and why the China argument does not tell the whole story.show more

Id rather be backwards and poor than forward and foolish

Wanting the AI race is fine. Telling a town they’re traitors for asking about water and the power bill is not. Those can both be true. Wrote it up:

No one listens to this lunatic anymore.

Data centers are just a guarantee of enslavement as payment. Millennials and those generations after have already been offered as sacrafice for the materialist hell we live in built to serve the boomer ego. Data centers secure the payment by denying freedom.

What’s so hard to understand that people want to own their media and not have to pay triple the $ on their utility bills?

Many of these people voted for him

Competing for what? What's the prize? It appears to be a race just to be racing, with little actual tangible reward at the end. Before these data centers are even operational the technology will likely change such that it will render them overbuilt from the get go.

Two weeks to flatting the CCP AI curve

Are these Data Centers really big generators for what they built under the ground 🤔

@DavidBCollum “Backwards” is a perspective. It’s according to where you’re standing. I like my community the way it is. If that’s “backwards” then so be it.

reversing your own quote from last year and calling the old version propaganda is a bold way to lose an argument

Data centers are needed to advance humanity. If we listen to these type of people we wouldn't even have airports today.

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Um we will still be poor WITH the data centers , we will just have dirty water and low pressure as to boot . 🤔 ya we will stay backwards you fucking monsters

To be told by a GOP politician that you oppose data centers because of China or you want to be poor is the most foolish campaign message since “you’re wrong to think you are struggling in this economy.”