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Trump pollster gives GOP a data center survival guide
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President Trump's longtime pollster is offering Republican candidates a detailed playbook for neutralizing Democratic attacks over AI data centers, down to what language they should and shouldn't use.
Key facts
- The data centers are great, and they make people wealthy, and they make states wealthy, and it's the oil of the next 20, 25 years," Trump said Monday
- Pollster Tony Fabrizio warns in a two-page memo obtained by Axios that "unqualified support for building more AI data centers is a losing position
- President Trump's longtime pollster is offering Republican candidates a detailed playbook for neutralizing Democratic attacks over AI data centers, down to what language they should and shouldn't use
- Republican strategists say GOP candidates have been all over the map in responding to the backlash to data centers
Summary
Republican strategists say GOP candidates have been all over the map in responding to the backlash to data centers. Pollster Tony Fabrizio warns in a two-page memo obtained by Axios that "unqualified support for building more AI data centers is a losing position. Fabrizio argues that candidates must make clear those conditions are enforceable, rather than voluntary commitments from tech companies.