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Can Trump Save Public Perception of Data Centers?

Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell

Data centers have become widely unpopular with the American people, but some experts say it is up to Big Tech, not the president, to improve public opinion.

President Donald Trump has been outspoken in his support for data centers, posting on Truth Social Monday that those who oppose data centers want to be “backwards and poor.” But 7 in 10 Americans oppose the construction of data centers in their community, according to a May 13 Gallup poll. Some Republican candidates, including Texas GOP gubernatorial nominee Ken Paxton and Michigan GOP gubernatorial nominee Mike Rogers, have distanced themselves from data centers.

Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon said it’s incumbent on the “Big Tech oligarchs,” not the president, to make the case for data centers. He echoed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who said Wednesday that “the industry has done a terrible job, terrible job of explaining themselves.”

“The Big Tech oligarchs, the guys driving AI, did a terrible job,” Bannon told the Daily Signal. “They came in to try to muscle local communities, and particularly since President Trump’s strongest base is in exurban and rural communities, that’s where they were really the ugliest, and they haven’t made their case, and they particularly haven’t made their case at the local level about the economics of this, and the energy of this, and the water of this, and the manifestation of what these things are going to be used for.”

Bannon said he is “adamantly opposed” to data centers unless “they can make a very compelling case about not just the construction of them in the first part, but over time, what happens? What’s their use? What’s it going to be used for?”

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