President Donald Trump loves a data center: Last year, the president signed an executive order that "expedites federal permitting, facilitates construction on federal land and makes qualifying projects eligible for financial incentives," notes The Washington Post. Trump is a huge fan, but much of the rest of his party reflects voters' fears that data centers will burden residential areas.
Data centers—the huge warehouses needed to store all the specialized hardware that's required to run AI models—have grown in salience as a political problem in recent months.
