Trump blasts data center critics: Backwards and poor

Many Americans don't like data centers.

At the very least, a majority of U.S. citizens don't want one of the dozens of proliferating AI infrastructure projects to end up in their backyard, as complaints of environmental destruction, noise pollution, and water constraints reach a fever pitch.

But President Donald Trump doesn't really care.

In a recent Truth Social post , the country's leader called data centers a "golden goose" that Americans would be remiss to push back on.

"The only reason that communities throughout the U.S.A. should not want Data Centers is if they want to end up being backwards and poor," the President wrote.

"If they want to be successful and rich, with far lower taxes and jobs all over the place, let Data Reign." SEE ALSO: Trump administration acted illegally in fight against Anthropic, judge rules Trump doubles down on data centers The inflammatory post echoed similar sentiments shared earlier this month, as well as arguments he made in posts from July .

In fact, Trump has steadfastly backed large-scale data center projects, despite his own party backing away from data center commitments on the campaign trail.

"If I were the mayor of a town or the governor of a state, and I had a chance to get a big plant in an AI plant or a data center, I would absolutely want it because the jobs are enormous, and the money paid, the taxes paid are just enormous," said Trump at a recent convening of cryptocurrency leaders at the White House.

An anonymous insider told the Washington Post that Trump's hardline on leaving AI and data centers unfettered by federal regulation is a "personal" subject for him.

"You just can’t change his mind about it," the source told the publication.

Behind the scenes, the Trump administration has been edging open the floodgates to Big Tech-backed data centers as part of his mission to establish a nationwide AI infrastructure to rival China.

In fact, Trump has cited the foreign power regularly in arguments for data center investment.

"China could not be happier with this anti Data Center movement.

Actually, they can’t believe it is happening!" said Trump in the Aug.