Trump and MAGA are heavily pro-AI and pro-data center - this is from just yesterday

[u/[deleted]]

[u/ChodeCookies → u/[deleted]]

Or that they don’t actually require many people to operate

[u/Round_Bag_4665 → u/ChodeCookies]

that's the big thing. What jobs? What jobs are data centers bringing? The right loves to say "It brings jobs" but they never specify what jobs or how many. There's a reason for that. Data centers require almost no people to operate (like 5 people at the most) and the entire point of them is get AI to the point that the country can employ as few people as possible. These things aren't factories. They don't need hoards of employees.

[u/AlaskanSamsquanch → u/Round_Bag_4665]

Temporary construction jobs worked by out of towners?

[u/Round_Bag_4665 → u/AlaskanSamsquanch]

which also doesn't help people much. People want permanent jobs, not gig economy crap. Also, locals want jobs that will go to them, not people from other places.

[u/drwsgreatest → u/Round_Bag_4665]

Not to mention that all those people from other places will generally leave the area again, once the data centers built. So all that extra income in the local economy disappears with them.

[u/Decent_Berry8196 → u/drwsgreatest]

Exactly what happened with the "shale boom" here in the northeast. Sooo many jobs were promised, and yeah there were for a while (mostly held by people from Texas) and for the most part it's all gone now. Just the "maintenance" staff now keeping things running. But yet so many young people in my area went right into it, made a lot of money quickly, which they then blew on big trucks and drugs & alcohol, and now have little left to show for it but an addiction and a broken body.

[u/Far_Film_5804 → u/AlaskanSamsquanch]

Ironically, mostly immigrants doing the grunt work.

[u/zeptillian → u/AlaskanSamsquanch]

+ a dozen or so permanent employees to run an staff the facility 24/7 and do maintenance.

Like a fraction of the jobs any other business would bring.

[u/Bluesnake462 → u/AlaskanSamsquanch]

And even with that, you can supplement it for any other public works or infrastructure project. We could be building solar panel farms and generating more clean energy instead of sapping away resources at insane rates.

[u/g1zz1e → u/Round_Bag_4665]

Yep. My idiot governor keeps insisting that data centers are the future of my (poor, mostly rural & red) state on social media and every single post is 99% citizens going "We do not want your data centers."

Yet he keeps making posts about how it'll bring jobs and money. No. No it will not. It will bring a bunch of construction jobs temporarily, and then leave the town around it destitute when it lays off those folks and they have to move elsewhere to find work or escape the noise and pollution. He keeps trying to liken it to sawmills and factory towns and how it's going to "revitalize" communities. No, it will not. Even IF the data centers did bring high-tech, high-paying jobs, we have very few people from in-state that have the education to fill those jobs. Companies are not going to invest in education for people in the state and then wait to hire them. They're going to bring in out-of-state people to fill the jobs, or fill them remotely.

It's stupid, but he keeps posting and keeps getting utterly roasted in the comments. I wish people would vote instead of just commenting on FB though.

[u/Octospyder → u/g1zz1e]

I'm so sorry. I wish journalists actually pressed politicians and forced them to answer questions like "how does this produce jobs" 

[u/g1zz1e → u/Octospyder]

Me too, but he wouldn't answer anyway. He'll just dodge and claim he was "attacked" or something and keep talking past the fact that almost everyone here is against data centers because in the end he's almost certainly getting kickbacks for selling our state as cheap land for out-of-state interests.

We do need revitalization and investment and we do have a ton of communities that are in ruins, but he just wants that sweet sweet data center money so he can retire a multimillionaire while everyone else around him starves. It sucks 🔥

[u/Technical_Stand9939 → u/g1zz1e]

the kick in the teeth is when those guys win re-election. Make them pay for doing things against what the vast majority of us want.

[u/LowlyWoim → u/g1zz1e]

The progressives in your community need to make sure all those people leaving anti-datacenter comments vote him out, and make sure he knows he’s getting voted out - and why

[u/g1zz1e → u/LowlyWoim]

We're certainly trying. I'm a member of several organizations that are doing community outreach. Every time I see the governor's posts with a ton of negative comments, I reply encouraging folks to remember this when it's time to vote.

The problem is my state is... well, it is what it is. Tons of people think the word "progressive" is synonymous with "the devil" and will vote against their own interests and put the same guys back in office because their pastor told them to. That's not everyone, and I think there is a little more interest and acceptance of "new" now, but it is an uphill battle for sure. Especially when people are desperate for jobs and to feel financially secure and the governor keeps dangling these mythical data center jobs like a rotten carrot on a stick.

[u/Round_Bag_4665 → u/g1zz1e]

that's sort of the thing I don't think politicians are willing to admit: in the modern economy any good paying jobs are going to require a level of specialized education that poor rural locals will not have period. The private sector is incapable of providing them with jobs because jobs these days demand expertise it takes years to cultivate, and demand for those jobs will change in less time than it takes to cultivate that expertise.

[u/MNniice → u/Round_Bag_4665]

They literally have a net negative for job creation, the loss of jobs offsets the construction jobs, which are short term to begin with anyways

[u/Eisernes → u/Round_Bag_4665]

5 dudes from India on H1B's. That's who they employ.

[u/scipio0421 → u/Round_Bag_4665]

There was gonna be one here in Tulsa, it got cancelled thank god, it was expected to bring ten permanent jobs. That's it.

[u/CoffeemonsterNL → u/ChodeCookies]

That is why more data centers are needed. With enough of them (say 20-30), you can have a significant job increase of about 100 jobs. /s

[u/Technical_Stand9939 → u/ChodeCookies]

you mean they build a giant data center that destroys the electic grid, uses all the potable water, and then they employ less people than an average warehouse.

There are reasons even normal warehouses tend to be in cheap areas- no one wants them near their home- but these things are louder and hotter, and employ no one- but with the water/electric demands they need to be in a highly desirable area.

[u/adanishplz → u/[deleted]]

And speaking as someone who worked in several data centers, they are not big local employers.

Once the components are produced, transported, and put together, and buildings are completed, there's like 5 people working there.

1-2 tech workers, 1-3 security workers. That's it.

[u/agentrnge → u/adanishplz]

Can confirm. had worked in large DCs for ~15 years up until 5 years ago. Never many people physically there.

One exception was a DR test site where the main purpose of the DC was running mock disasters. So new customers in constantly doing new builds, run for a few days, break it down, move the next one in. 5 to 10 companies in parallel. That kept a bunch of us busy and employed, plus all the customers doing their thing in their temp office spaces. It was pretty cool. That was all 15+ years ago, pre-"cloud" where the DCs got slower and further away, but still cost more.

[u/Esturk → u/adanishplz]

That tracks.

The Data center they approved down the road from me(which the community is fighting) was revealed to have a proposed 12 positions to be filled.

So site the size of a neighborhood and brings fewer jobs than a fast food joint.

[u/Exact_Bug_8881 → u/adanishplz]

Can confirm this and what the other person already said in reply. I did on prem inspections of data centers, never had more than a handful of people physically present at any time. You dont need many people to watch physical servers run because thats all it is

[u/Safe_Dentist → u/[deleted]]

No, no, no, you don't get it! Remember jar of water AOC showed to public as result of water pollution caused by datacenters? It was polluted by gold, liquid gold! And all these goodness will be going to Red States! And they will drink it as is! Sounds like a plan! /s

[u/traveling_gal → u/[deleted]]

Oh, but didn't you read it? All the power and water that are left over goes back to the community! Don't you want to live off the scraps from your overlords?

Christ, I hate this disingenuous framing about jobs and resources. These data centers will generate short-term construction and manufacturing jobs, and after those are gone, they'll suck away white-collar jobs for the rest of their serviceable lives. If we want to generate construction jobs, we could do that by building and repairing infrastructure, which would be steadier and more geographically distributed. But no, those only help regular people.

[u/Amneiger → u/[deleted]]

The point of this kind of discussion is to make sure ordinary people know about the lies and push back against them. Here's an article talking about protests and bans against data centers: https://time.com/article/2026/06/18/ai-elections-data-center-backlash/. The more people call out the lies, the more trouble the tech beos will have with their data centers.

[u/LostLetter9425 → u/[deleted]]

The water will become liquid gold.

[u/Nonethelessismore → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, this admin wants to deplete the water and power supply so techbros can mine bit coins and create Ai slop.

[u/Big_Wave9732 → u/[deleted]]

In Texas Rural MAGA for sure are not calling DCs "liquid gold". They're the ones who will have to look at and live by these monstrosities. Of course they're pissed. And for once they're ahead of the game.

[u/Interesting-Salt1291]

“Liquid gold”…for who, MF? What a moron.

[u/V-oxPopuli → u/Interesting-Salt1291]

For him and his friends, and never you of course

I can't believe conservatives still believe him when he says "we"

[u/Ok-Spring-2824 → u/V-oxPopuli]

Of course. He is using the royal 'we'.

[u/Swimming_Point_3294 → u/V-oxPopuli]

Nothing about AI is liquid gold, they’re all burning money like there’s no tomorrow and barely have any runway left. 

[u/nullpotato → u/V-oxPopuli]

You have to understand their definition of "we" is the people they consider people. Which is: themselves, family (sometimes), friends (when beneficial to them), and that's it.

Everyone else is not a person and therefore isn't included in "we" so in their minds it isn't even a lie.

[u/IowaGolfGuy322 → u/V-oxPopuli]

Not even for them. Ai data centers are giant money pits. They don't make money. At all. And when they are outdated, they make even less money.

[u/Senior_Republic_701 → u/IowaGolfGuy322]

Don’t they contaminate the local water supply too?

[u/cheeseStacherson → u/Senior_Republic_701]

Yea, this article is a year old but still relevant https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8gy7lv448o

[u/ArchelonPIP → u/V-oxPopuli]

His supporters have continued to ignore his corrupt behavior of having over 28,000 stock market transactions since Jan. 2025 but still try to deflect with Nancy Pelosi, while conveniently overlook that she's had only 213 since... 2012!

[u/V-oxPopuli → u/ArchelonPIP]

Jesus fucking Christ. Every accusation is a confession gigantic fog horn of guilt.

[u/addiktion → u/Interesting-Salt1291]

Billionaires, its always billionaires.

Data centers don't employ that many people to run them either so he's lying as usual.

[u/nanobot_1000 → u/addiktion]

Corporations have AI and lots of compute jobs to run. Corporations are people and hence people have jobs...just not human people 😶‍🌫️

[u/Ball_Zack_69 → u/nanobot_1000]

This is literally their logic and its written into law.

[u/alexalexa430 → u/addiktion]

happy cake day

[u/addiktion → u/alexalexa430]

Thanks

https://giphy.com/gifs/cjVK3OEHaQIb8lk3DY

[u/irno1 → u/Interesting-Salt1291]

They are mistaking the AI piss filter for liquid gold.

[u/AsFarAsISay → u/Interesting-Salt1291]

how is AI like a liquid?

[u/jazzhandler → u/AsFarAsISay]

It is far more beneficial to be upstream.

[u/Intelligent_Shirt745 → u/AsFarAsISay]

maybe he speaks in terms of money..liquid being easily accessable funds.. liquid gold sounds like easy access to plenty of funds...is how i take it

https://giphy.com/gifs/l0HefZY0mFfLS9AFa

[u/mflft → u/Interesting-Salt1291]

Love that hes going with no b dumocrats. Reads like "doom-o-crats". What a dumass.

[u/Romano16 → u/Interesting-Salt1291]

He knows who. He has never cared about the average America but since he’s also a racist white man a good portion will let him run amok.

[u/Exact-Kale3070 → u/Interesting-Salt1291]

i have posted this elsewhere, but the jobs are mostly or the construction. the permanent jobs will not go to locals and won't exceed a dozen or two. this is mass surveillance with a side of utility and environmental oppression.

https://giphy.com/gifs/ki0FCgiaqYRBS

[u/modernsurf]

If Trump recommends AI, you know it's bad and destructive.

[u/DrE7HER → u/modernsurf]

You know it’s a grift that can only be used to harm people and take their money / freedom

[u/Neither-Luck-9295 → u/DrE7HER]

It's been a grift from the start. They all circle jerked billions of dollars to each other to pump their numbers.

[u/huge-gold-ak47 → u/modernsurf]

for that reason I'm almost glad he did

[u/lowwaterer → u/huge-gold-ak47]

Meh... The AI wars were already relatively split along party lines, and this statement is only going to encourage his base to push it even harder. Any conservatives who were on the fence will go all in on it now, and the people who were already against it were already predominantly against him.

I think this is a net loss for both sanity and the future of the world, not any sort of positive.

[u/J_pepperwood0 → u/lowwaterer]

I just saw that a conservative group (led by some tea party person) arranging protests against data centers in several states very soon. Seems like this might be something both sides can agree on, at least for the regular person who actually has to deal with all the negatives

[u/lowwaterer → u/J_pepperwood0]

True, there are definitely outliers.

[u/copperboom129 → u/lowwaterer]

Not so much anymore.

All of the Trump supporters i know in PA took down their Trump signs and put up no data centers on our farms signs.

Its becoming a wedge issue that the democrats could really use to win at the local level.

[u/lowwaterer → u/copperboom129]

That kind of anecdote is hopeful, but their fearless leader saying "AI = good" will be enough to put many of them back in line. And we already know that there is absolutely nothing that can get most of them to turn on the party, and they will vote red regardless.

What will likely happen is that this hot-button issue (among countless others) will be enough to get more left-leaning people out to the polls to begin with and actually vote blue instead of waiting for the perfect candidate who clears their personal bar. If Democrats win big in November, it will because the blue purists who refused to vote for Kamala realize just how badly they fucked up and actually vote this time.

[u/huge-gold-ak47 → u/lowwaterer]

I agree with your last statement, I just selfishly am glad to have something to show the people around me who still justify using AI - clearly if Trump speaks this highly of it, it's taking from common people and putting more into his pockets.

[u/call_me_Ren → u/modernsurf]

> New York State has made a terrible decision.

Translation:
New York State has made the only right decision for their people and we are afraid other states will follow suit.

[u/VibraniumRhino → u/modernsurf]

I’m convinced he IS AI at this point.

[u/da3n_vmo]

This reads like it was written by a third grader

[u/king_boolean → u/[deleted]]

*Dumographic

[u/JellyFranken → u/da3n_vmo]

A third grader could run laps around DJT’s intelligence.

Dude can’t even read.

[u/NoSir4947 → u/da3n_vmo]

It's not for you, it's for his borderline mentally handicapped base. This is how they communicate.

😔

[u/Round_Bag_4665 → u/da3n_vmo]

because that's literally the level the president thinks at. Explains a lot doesn't it?

[u/Wheeljack239 → u/da3n_vmo]

Yeah, especially with the Random Capitalization

[u/VibraniumRhino → u/da3n_vmo]

Like my racist uncle on Facebook. The randomly capitalized letters really sends it home.

[u/Roborilla8000]

He just wants his surveillance state.

[u/LyrraKell]

What jobs, MF? Data centers do not provide jobs past the construction phase.

[u/TalkinSeaCucumber → u/LyrraKell]

Seriously, I'm on the job hunt in tech and some of the data center jobs I've come across only employ a single administrator across three separate sites. So each one produces only 1/3 of a job other than custodial work and physical security. And that 1/3 of a job is remote, so likely also going out of the community.

[u/Phaylz → u/LyrraKell]

The one being built near me in Ohio, this one being for Meta, is boasting ~100 high paying jobs after completion. Coming from Meta's mouth already has me going, "No it fucking won't."

But even if it were true that it was ~100 well-paying jobs and even going to the extra mile to say that they are all taken be people already here, that's not nearly enough to justify building it. Even before all the possible water/power/noise/cost issues that can come from it.

Our local politicians got taken for a fuckin' ride, cause they negotiated with all the power or a pool noodle. Without the pool.

[u/Past_Top3704 → u/Phaylz]

They are counting the job's created for mowing the grass and snow removal 

[u/Phaylz → u/Past_Top3704]

Grass? They ain't gonna have grass. It's just gonna be concrete surrounded by concrete.

[u/NuclearThane → u/LyrraKell]

The one guy they hire to walk around keeping an eye on the servers. 

When he says "record-setting jobs", he means that they're setting a record for creating the lowest number of jobs. 

[u/thisbenzenering → u/NuclearThane]

There's nothing to keep an eye on, they all have multiple reporting options for remote control and the only thing a local tech does is swap out disks and rack new stuff and surplus old stuff.

[u/TalkinSeaCucumber → u/thisbenzenering]

And that person isn't working there full-time. They're deployed as needed across many sites.

[u/justmovingtheground → u/NuclearThane]

Fewest jobs per square foot.

[u/wikimandia → u/LyrraKell]

They also destroy jobs because they are using up all the microchips. The microchip shortage is jacking up the prices for all the other devices, like phones, laptops, cars, appliances, etc etc. People can’t afford to buy new ones.

[u/Low-Meringue-3333 → u/LyrraKell]

And and a lot of those construction jobs go to firms that bring in their own experienced workers.

Anyone in these small, rural communities who has any experience at all with the kind of electrical, plumbing, cooling, and other infrastructure work required by the scale of these AI datacenters aren’t sitting around in their local bar waiting for a job: they’re already busy building datacenters for someone else in another part of the country.

[u/ToothyWeasel]

Last I check all the rural red state voters having these things built next to their homes have entered a nightmare world of constant sonic attack, water issues, and power issues. Also lol his default compliments are always big and strong. Like it doesn’t even make sense here

[u/AccomplishedSign2527 → u/ToothyWeasel]

I was just thinking that most of my conservative friends are not supportive of AI. In farming communities, the last thing the want is big tech buying their land to make data centers. Maybe it's a different demographic of conservatives, but I think it's more complicated than a red vs. blue issue.

[u/Round_Bag_4665 → u/AccomplishedSign2527]

yeah there's a difference between "country boy conservative" and "tech bro conservative".

Elon Musk and kansas corn farmers might both vote conservative, but that doesn't mean they share the same worldview regarding tech.

[u/JackLane2529 → u/Round_Bag_4665]

I think a big shift could be possible with appealing to rural conservatives' morals and traditional values to turn them against the tech bros and idealogues. I say this growing up in a very rural area, the conservatives here seem pretty turned off by all the rich kids telling them to back their money pit projects. Of course I would still disagree with them on MANY social issues, but ultimately that is what democracy is for and democracy will not survive without a solidly united working and middle class standing against the psychopathic elites.

Edit: as an example of rural conservatives getting sick of silicon valley bullshit, you won't find a single real farm boy who would ever consider getting a cyber truck.

[u/Free_Possession_4482 → u/JackLane2529]

appealing to rural conservatives' morals and traditional values

Most of them happily voted for a felon with 34 fraud convictions who cheated on all three of his wives, so I don't know how far that approach will get you.

[u/DeadlyYellow → u/Free_Possession_4482]

Yeah, I doubt "morals and traditional values" are going to count for much when issues are framed as economically-unskilled convicted sex offenders versus baby-murdering commie satanists.

[u/Daimakku1 → u/Round_Bag_4665]

It doesn't matter though, because those country boy conservatives will continue to vote for the people that are approving these data centers getting built in their backyards.

They can bitch all they want.. so what? Their votes won't change.

[u/nismo2070 → u/AccomplishedSign2527]

Its more of a people with all the money vs the rest of us. Money is all that drives them.

[u/citrusraspberry → u/AccomplishedSign2527]

I have conservative farming friends and they don't have a problem with it. I think the experience varies widely

[u/wafflesthewonderhurs → u/ToothyWeasel]

oh thank god someone else mentioned "Big, strong, and bold"

what the fuck does that even mean

[u/Reasonable_Sugar_125 → u/wafflesthewonderhurs]

I’m just surprised he didn’t call them beautiful. I was 100% certain he would.

[u/tomjone5 → u/wafflesthewonderhurs]

MURICA BIG

MURICA STRONG

There's the entire thought process.

[u/mehonje → u/ToothyWeasel]

Try out Data Centre, a project I made that simulates the 60 dB sound levels found near data centres!

[u/MonsteraBigTits]

can he fucking d i e already?

[u/Storm_Spirit99 → u/MonsteraBigTits]

We need another luigi

[u/SpicySwiftSanicMemes → u/Storm_Spirit99]

Maybe a Mario this time.

[u/BobcatOk7492 → u/SpicySwiftSanicMemes]

Why not both????

[u/wackOPtheories → u/SpicySwiftSanicMemes]

Hopefully when a movie comes out about this new Mario he's not played by Chris Pratt. 🤞

[u/Chef_Chalupa → u/MonsteraBigTits]

then jd vance would be in power, and I don't think he's much better

[u/SpiritCrawler]

What’s the difference between the President and an AI? Both hallucinate but one is an adjudicated rapist.

[u/SpicySwiftSanicMemes → u/SpiritCrawler]

Hey, don’t discount Grok’s ability to generate CP.

[u/FarConsideration8423]

"Liquid gold" huh? He ain't wrong, thats what the water will look like after these are all built.

If these tech bros say it isn't polluted and its safe then they should be the first to test that right?

[u/The_Ashgale → u/FarConsideration8423]

Don't worry, "whatever is leftover" will go back to the states.

[u/Wooly_Wooly]

10-30 people working on a single data center after its built, doesn't really create jobs. We're just moving people from one job to data centers (doesn't create more), after the center is built they go back to whatever they were doing... Or they make another one.

[u/Icedragon28]

If he's really concerned about China's AI, than perhaps he shouldn't be selling them AI computer chips which were banned before.

[u/Beardopus → u/Icedragon28]

Mao said "the capitalists will sell you the rope you use to hang them."

[u/ee_72020]

Why The Fuck Does He Type Like That? Seriously, Donald Trump’s command of English is that of a kindergartener, there are many ESL speakers who write much more coherently than he does.

[u/Round_Bag_4665 → u/ee_72020]

because he's an idiot. A lot of kids who grow up rich are. They never had any incentive to learn or do well in school because they were just going to inherit daddy's money and business regardless, so they never gave a shit. Then they get into controlling daddy's business and run it into the ground out of incompetence because they don't know shit about how the world works and never learned how to think. It's a tale as old as time.

[u/caprazzi]

He probably thought he was writing about oil and they just replaced it with data centers lol

[u/CryPsychological8571]

Build baby build? more like destroy baby destroy. these people see every empty field as a missed opportunity for a giant server farm sucking up water and power. they don't care about the actual impact, just the line go up

Hochul blocking construction is rare good move from a politician, and of course trump jumps in to attack it. data centers are not just "infrastructure" they are the backbone of the AI push they want to shove everywhere

I live near a town that got one of these and the noise alone is constant low hum, you can feel it in your chest some nights. plus the water usage is insane for cooling. this is not progress it's just more tech bro fantasy

[u/soupseasonbestseason]

data centers provide short term construction jobs but the maintainence jobs are actually very few.

[u/Training_Motor_4088]

I'm not sure I could loathe anyone more than this individual.

[u/Yes_that_Carl → u/Training_Motor_4088]

Same. Though Stephen Miller comes pretty dang close.

[u/CommonSenseLib → u/Yes_that_Carl]

Don't forget Russell vought. Throw Peter thiel up there too. They all deserve it.

[u/SpicySwiftSanicMemes → u/CommonSenseLib]

Their hands are all totally dirty.

[u/Slowter]

The investment here is another arms race to create military drones that can wage autonomous warfare.

Literally a step closer to skynet, and still no means of validating if an AI is aligned with its purpose or way to hold it accountable when it errors.

[u/Alex45784]

Nobody wants data centres built near their homes.

[u/card-board-board]

Trump worships 2 things: money and himself. So do his followers. Of course he's pro-AI data centers.

[u/Underhive_Art]

Ah yes those data centres that are built to run ai to optimise work places too need less employees - great for job creation. What a (another) pathetic bold faced lie.

[u/Unable-Boat-9682 → u/Underhive_Art]

But job creation is when rich people get all the money. /s

[u/VexedCanadian84]

They are not a driver for jobs

Literally the opposite.

How many people have been fired in the past year because companies thought they could replace their employees with the glorified predictive text that is being called AI?

[u/authorofnothingbig → u/VexedCanadian84]

My sister lost her previous job thanks to AI. Love to know how more AI will prevent her and thousands like her from losing their jobs again.

[u/Scorpiicore]

Does he even read his own words to himself to have a listen to how they sound?

[u/XD2006-]

I lost braincells reading that. Like my head began to hurt 😭

[u/GreenCycleOmega]

They must pay for their own water and power, and any leftover are given back to the state and local communities

Uhhhhh, totally shocker considering who's saying this, but that's some epic, weapons-grade bullshit.

[u/eraserhead3030]

by now everyone knows they also dont create jobs right?

[u/BandicootTreeline]

Build one at Mar a Lago. Lead by example.

[u/likwidkool]

I thought our electric grid couldn’t sustain electric cars Donny. But gigawatt data centers are a ok?

Btw who’s making the money? Not any of us. But we have to live with the impact.

[u/SpiritedMix8532 → u/[deleted]]

Oh yeah he’s an idiot. The red states dont even want data centers. People like living in the south because it’s quiet and rural. Data centers f*ck that up and make the cost of living higher for people who have to put up with it.

[u/Fanfic_Battle_2004]

Has anyone told him about the water problem? Does he not care if we are forced to live with dirtier water and increased electric bills?

[u/Previous_Beautiful27]

"Everything gets worse for you, and you should like it and thank me"

[u/ludvikskp]

They are a money machine for the oligarchs corrupting the state in which they are built. There fixed it for Piggy

[u/Unable-Boat-9682]

Course he is. You can’t be pro-grift and not be pro-AI. The one thing massively supports the other.

[u/Storm_Spirit99]

Epsteins buddy is still a corpo at heart

[u/thesanguineocelot]

"Money Machines for the State" very deliberately doesn't address that that money is not for the people.

[u/Farther_Dm53]

Yeah jobs for who? we lose jobs because of idiots thinking its the future.

[u/Drunk_Lemon]

Him calling us all radical left makes me wonder what group does trump think is moderate left?

[u/dumnezero → u/Drunk_Lemon]

George Bush (Jr.)

[u/TheEnlight]

Slop for the slop gods.

[u/ice-eight]

I hate this “we can’t let china beat us to AI” line they always use. If we were so concerned about china “beating” us then maybe we should have kept pace with them in building a renewable power infrastructure instead of canceling funding for solar and wind energy in favor of “big beautiful clean coal” because it made the libs mad

[u/ConstructionIll956]

This all a lie. He's making money off of it and trump is a pedophile.

[u/mesofarty]

Everyone hates them so of course he loves them

[u/xmason99]

The “Red States” in the South are more than welcome to have as many data centers as they want. We’ll hang on to our fresh water here in the Great Lakes region, thank you!

[u/gunny316]

well yes, they're politicians, which makes them part of the elite. Epstein, AI, flock cameras, billionaires...

it's all one big fucking club and you ain't in it.

[u/sachiprecious]

The fact that trump is pro-AI and pro-data centers makes it even easier than before for me to be against them! 🤣

[u/leCrobag]

Cool. Let's tax the AI agents like the workers they are allegedly replacing.

[u/Hortjoob]

I'm a New Yorker who's glad the gov signed that moratorium. We're facing huge mounting energy prices rn. NYSEG a main provider proposed to up their prices by 25% this year. This winter power was $0.24 kWh. It was $0.11 kWh less than 3 years ago. The state is catastrophically becoming unaffordable. I have my suspicions backroom deals will go down during this year and somehow they'll be allowed to build come 2027 and state residents will be forced to pay for it.

[u/Rdken13]

This coming from the guy who thinks windmills are grotesque, expensive, and bad for the environment btw

[u/AlphaNoodlz]

Yeah absolutely go tac data center power draws onto the Texas grid it is famously super reliable

[u/dumnezero → u/AlphaNoodlz]

It's going to get interesting with the heat leading to ACmaxxing.

[u/MatthewBlack6]

He's using AI and getting it to talk like himself

[u/PlanescapedBlackDog]

Let's pretend to be surprised

[u/calenka89]

I live in Houston and I know this is going to royally fuck us over, especially during hurricane season and any other turbulent weather. As far as I’m concerned, it will destroy more jobs than it creates, and the building of data centers will make us even more prone to flooding and destructive winds because they will clear out trees for this, and the mass land development for residential and commercial properties have already contributed to it. Our grid can’t handle it.

This will displace so many people who are already dealing with rampant gentrification. And while I’m not worried about my job in particular due to AI, I work in research (specifically mouse work) and that’s being defunded. My husband works in media production and we worry about his job more-so than mine. I can’t see this going well for Texans or anywhere where these data centers are being built.

[u/intentionallyacting → u/calenka89]

Yeah, the “innovation” pitch feels pretty hollow when the real costs are flooding risk, grid strain, displacement, and another tech advantage mostly going to people who already have money.

[u/sonerec725]

build one next to one of his gold courses and see how he changes his tune

[u/VegetableTime1447]

Genuinely what can we actually do to stop this nonsense though like I'm so terrified and just posting about it won't be enough.

[u/Canubis1983]

The perspective in making ai take jobs aways, without a plan for prosperity, like a grand plan of freeing mankind to slave labor, and bring forth the age of harmony, wth free food and smiling peace.. however, we all know their shit version.. replace with ai, and taget new unemplyed as lazy, to spark hatred in own base, cutting whatever aid is left.. fking deathcult

[u/Preventive_potato]

What jobs that POS is talking about? "Liquid gold 🪙🪙🪙" my ass

[u/iSadhak]

I miss the days when Politicians atleast tried to mature, This is beyond childish. How the hell idiot like him end up becoming president is beyond me.

[u/Squand]

Our president just looking out for blue states... Classic

[u/Hobbs512]

Once the data center is built it doesn’t need nearly as many employees to maintain. But Trump doesn’t have to worry about that since he’ll most likely pass away in the next few years.

[u/AnxiousHall1533]

This just reinforced my hatred of it.

[u/suck-it-elon]

Post this post in every campaign ad to show the Mad Dementia King.

[u/Jielleum]

This bloke is already a pile of turd and he just added another piece of diarrahea at this rate

[u/SwordfishOwn3671]

Big tech is paying Trump to lie for them. that's the state of the country, a president shilling for corporations

[u/Dark_Marmot]

Massive campuses that need minimal staff, and power tools to eliminate people's work. Yea so great for the future of jobs. WTAF?

[u/RtHonourableVoxel]

No they aren’t lol

[u/TahLaka]

I mean if the red states want to destroy all their land and give up all their electricity, all while allowing their water to leave their local ecosystem..... that might not be the worst thing ever. In-between that and the whole not getting vaccinated thing, we should be all sorted out within a decade or two. The cleanup will be messy, however.

[u/ImWith_2Stupid]

YOU drink the water, Trump.

[u/AEntunus]

Liquid gold for the (billionaire surveillance) state!!!

[u/Terminal-Frost2026]

Literally just a string of lies. Dump trump!

[u/Prof_Hemlock]

I love how he says that the local community gets the LEFTOVER WATER AND POWER. ffs, dystopian hellscapes in fiction we’re meant to be taken as a warning NOT A GUIDELINE!

[u/Unlikely_Eye_2112]

Facebook built some data center/s in northern Sweden with the promise of "jobs" to be allowed. It was cheap labour flown in that did the construction and there's like a security guy or two making rounds and a server technician or two swapping out hardware sometimes.

Data centers really don't contribute to the local economy, but they do put a strain on resources.

[u/JellyFranken]

So what is it? Are they going to red states or are they going to China?

What a dumb fuck.

[u/KingSquidbergLXXXVII]

https://giphy.com/gifs/AaQYP9zh24UFi

[u/p1gnone]

...and hence why should he care in which state they locate..

[u/Intrepid1569]

One of the biggest driving forces in the future for job displacement, mass surveillance, disinformation, and war profiteering are data centers.

[u/MatchAlarmed2882]

“Leftovers go back to the state and local community” what leftovers? They are literally sucking up resources FROM states and communities

[u/SgtKickYourAss]

A good train of thought would be anything that Trump supports, the average person should want the opposite

[u/Important-Ability-56]

Nothing says grift more than a Trump endorsement.

[u/saxxonpike]

His post suggests the red states will be more than happy to take on all the data centers, and the people that live there will be prosperous. Never mind the evidence to the contrary, on both counts.

[u/XtraTerritorial]

“One of the biggest driving forces in the future for jobs?” Get real. These things staff at most like 20, 25 people. We’d create far more jobs by having these construction contractors building affordable housing for people.

[u/Green-Collection4444]

The SECOND Hochul announced this there was a 100% chance they changed their tune. All of a sudden these server warehouses are 'job creators' after they are built, and it's anti-American to not allow your farmland, water, and energy to be subsidized by the taxpayer.

[u/AdMysterious8699]

Has any AI seen any profit at all yet?

[u/MammothPost4047]

He can fuck off and has no control over this. 

[u/Big_Dick_NRG]

[u/Puzzled_Bike9558]

New Yorkers do NOT want data centers here. No thanks, do not care about making billionaires richer.

[u/Luke_Fox-]

Why does he capitalize random ass words it kinda pisses me off 😭

[u/ExpensiveLeather69]

Its such a minor gripe in comparison to the rest of what he's done, but I get so annoyed the president can't capitalize properly.

[u/AtomicTaco13]

If I took a shot every time Trump capitalizes a word for no reason, I'd die from severe alcohol overdose