Donald Trump doesn't appear to be a fan of the data center backlash that has swept the nation. Posting on his Truth Social platform, the President said that communities that reject data centers only do so because "they want to end up being backwards and poor," and posited that China "could not be happier with this anti Data Center movement." The comment comes amid a wide, albeit unorganized, pushback to data center buildouts in the United States that's left local communities and municipalities reckoning with an unanticipated and rapid infrastructure buildout.
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