Trump Made A Deal With Billionaires. Communities Are Making Him Pay For It.

The resistance is fighting back and winning

The billionaires got their seats at Trump’s inauguration. They got their tax breaks and emergency declarations, and even land. Trump revoked safety rules on day one and handed them the power grid on day two.

What the tech bros wanted was simple—to blanket the country in AI data centers and make the American people pay for it. But they didn’t expect communities to fight back—and win.

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TRUMP WANTS DATA CENTERS EVERYWHERE

Trump with Masayoshi Son, Larry Ellison, and Sam Altman

AI data centers are massive facilities that power artificial intelligence. They consume extraordinary amounts of electricity—driving up power bills, and polluting water supplies in the neighborhoods around them.

Communities across the country are being told these data centers are coming whether they like it or not. And the Trump regime is the reason why.

On his first full day in office, Trump stood in the Roosevelt Room with three billionaires—Sam Altman of OpenAI, Larry Ellison of Oracle, and Masayoshi Son of SoftBank—and announced a $500 billion promise to build AI data centers across America.

“We have to get this stuff built,” Trump said. Altman replied: “We wouldn’t be able to do this without you, Mr. President.”

These aren’t public investments. They’re private profit machines built on land and water taken from people who never got a vote. Trump promised 100,000 new jobs. He lied.

THE JOBS PROMISE IS A LIE

The pitch never changes. A developer shows up with a promise to create jobs. Tax breaks are given, zoning is amended, and their project moves forward.

Ben Green, who researches data center impacts at the University of Michigan and Harvard, laid it out: “It’s a significant false promise.” Construction lasts a year or two—then it opens with only 20 to 50 permanent jobs. And if you live near one, your electricity costs go up—often by double or more.

Trump promised people an economic revolution. He sold them out instead. Communities figured it out. So they started fighting back—and winning.

AMERICA SAYS NO

Sen. Bernie Sanders (Left) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Right)

At least 142 activist groups are currently pushing back against data centers across 24 states. More than $18 billion in data center projects have been blocked. At least 25 were canceled in 2025 alone.

A state legislature just handed Trump his biggest data center defeat yet—the first statewide ban in American history. Maine’s governor has five days to sign it into law.

And in March, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced a federal moratorium bill on new AI data centers. AOC said it plainly: “Once these companies can be on the up-and-up—refusing to free ride off of the American people—then we can continue.”

NOVEMBER IS COMING

Opposing data centers is already flipping elections. Ben Green found that the issue actually flipped races for Democrats in Virginia and Georgia last November. The Michigan Senate race is being shaped around it right now. “Voters can really feel how data centers affect their lives in ways that are tangible and concrete,” Green said.

Every Republican on the ballot in 2026 has to defend a party that handed Silicon Valley everything they wanted and doubled people’s power bills. The resistance is holding that bill—and we’re organized, angry, and ready to win big in November.

No funding came in to support these communities or put them on television. They showed up to meetings they never planned to attend, organized alongside neighbors they didn’t know, and worked together to block $18 billion in AI data center projects. And it’s just the beginning.

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Onward!

Scott

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