Trump loves data centers. Americans hate them
Despite Trump’s claim that data centers aren’t or wouldn’t make electricity more expensive, 77 percent said they were doing just that in Reuters/Ipsos polling earlier in June, while two-thirds said the same in a March Pew Research Center poll.“They need some PR help, because people think that if a data center goes in there, electricity prices are going to go up,” Trump said.
Back in March, the administration debuted an initiative called the Ratepayer Protection Pledge, which aimed to get developers to voluntarily promise that data center construction wouldn’t raise people’s energy bills.
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