'Backwards and poor': Trump issues dire warning to communities blocking critical technology
Let Data Reign. China is the one smiling at every canceled campus.
Summary
- Fox News reports President Trump wrote on Truth Social that communities that reject data centers will end up 'backwards and poor,' while those that 'let Data Reign' get jobs and lower taxes.
- He said China could not be happier with the anti-campus movement, tying the fight to his second-term bets on energy dominance and U.S. AI lead.
- Towns are already in a water-and-power brawl over new halls of servers. The president's line treats a canceled campus as a gift to Beijing, not a local win.
- The same day, an American startup announced a 250-megawatt hall in Saudi Arabia, citing U.S. moratoriums. The watts still get built. The zip code changes.
Commentary
A lineman still tastes copper on a dry lip and knows a substation is a town's future or its funeral. He did not climb that pole so a hearing could ship the watts overseas.
That is the gap. Jobs and tax base here, or a 250-megawatt hall in someone else's desert. The honest dad already paid the bill. The moratorium paid Beijing.
Ask every working mother who still wants a factory wage in her county: if China smiles at every canceled campus, who still owns the next kilowatt?
Comments
Backwards and poor is rude. It is also the receipt on a dead downtown.
I watched a plant leave. A data hall is a plant that drinks power instead of river water.
Truth Social: Let Data Reign. China happier. Write the zoning against that line.
Allied grids still build the hall. A U.S. moratorium is a Saudi groundbreaking.
250 megawatts just left for the Gulf. File the forwarding address.
I still climb in the rain. I want the overtime here, not in a kingdom.
A campus that pays the school tax is not a villain. A dead main street is.
AI is a weapons race with a cooling tower. Cancel the hall and you cancel the lead.
Fox printed backwards and poor, Let Data Reign, and the China line. Argue those nouns.
Build the substation. Keep the watts. Do not donate the boom.
