Trump says communities opposed to data centers want to be 'backwards and poor'
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President Trump said Monday that communities that do not want AI data centers will suffer economically.
"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," Trump wrote on Truth Social.
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