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It’s Donald Trump Versus MAGA on Data Centers
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Key facts
- More than 60 percent of Americans, including 47 percent of Republicans, say they are opposed to the construction of data centers in a poll released by The New York Times last week
- Their colleague Hugo Lowell, who covers the White House and writes their Inner Loop newsletter, says he’s not surprised by Trump’s attitude
- Sanders, the president of the Eagle Forum Education & Legal Defense Fund, which was started by Phyllis Schlafly, also describes herself as “a crunchy MAHA mom”—and says she’s been paying particular
- The China competition angle is being publicly echoed by tech accelerationists and White House allies, including former White House AI czar David Sacks and investor and Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale
Summary
Molly McCann Sanders has a lot in common with many of the other women who helped Donald Trump win a second term as president. Sanders, the president of the Eagle Forum Education & Legal Defense Fund, which was started by Phyllis Schlafly, also describes herself as “a crunchy MAHA mom”—and says she’s been paying particular attention to data centers. “I'm alarmed by the idea that these data centers can move in and pollute,” she tells me. She loves Trump, “but I think he’s wrong about data centers,” she says.