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Right-leaning Democratic Party Sen. John Fetterman (Pennsylvania) has expressed support for the expansion of data centers, despite bipartisan pushback against their construction.<\/p>\n

Fetterman\u2019s remarks came on Monday following President Donald Trump\u2019s post on Truth Social deriding Americans who have organized in opposition to the building of data centers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 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,\u201d Trump wrote. \u201cIf they want to be successful and rich, with far lower taxes and jobs all over the place, let Data Reign.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fetterman \u2014 who has expressed support for many Trump-led initiatives since being elected senator and is reportedly being courted by Republicans to switch parties \u2014 also stated his support for the expansion of data center construction. <\/p>\n

In a post on X, Fetterman reacted positively to a Bloomberg <\/em>report on Trump\u2019s post by writing, \u201cAgreed,\u201d and adding, \u201cWe must win the war for AI supremacy over China.\u201d He also suggested that he understood the political ramifications of his statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s nothing more damaging to a Democrat than agreeing with Trump AND data centers,\u201d Fetterman wrote. But he claimed his position is still the \u201cright\u201d one to stake.<\/p>\n

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Support for data centers isn\u2019t just damaging to Democrats, as Fetterman has recognized \u2014 it\u2019s a position that has bipartisan opposition. <\/p>\n

According to a Fox News <\/em>poll published in July, only 30 percent of respondents said they would support a data center being built in their area, while 70 percent opposed the idea. Sixty percent of Republicans opposed the construction of data centers near them, while 76 percent of Democrats were opposed.<\/p>\n

Others reacted to Trump\u2019s post less enthusiastically than Fetterman did. Chris Deluzio, a Democratic congressman who is also from Pennsylvania, condemned the president\u2019s comments on data centers. <\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s post is \u201cso disrespectful to people who have concerns about AI\u2019s roles in our lives, or electricity costs, or whether good union jobs are part of this, or water supplies \u2014 you name it,\u201d Deluzio said in a video post. \u201cIt certainly isn\u2019t because they want to be backwards and poor.\u201d<\/p>\n

The construction of data centers across multiple states, particularly those used for AI systems, has led to grassroots resistance, with opponents voicing concerns over environmental impacts, rising costs of utility bills for regular consumers, air and noise pollution, and other issues. Those arguing in favor of regulation of such centers have also noted labor concerns regarding the expansion of AI centers.<\/p>\n

\u201cAI in the hands of the transnational capitalist class is an instrument of class warfare against the global working and popular classes,\u201d explained William I. Robinson, professor of sociology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, writing for Truthout <\/em>in an op-ed published in June. \u201cAI accelerates the process whereby labor is deskilled, made precarious, and expelled through algorithmic restructuring of the labor process and outright automation.\u201d<\/p>\n

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