Trump's choice: Defeat China with data centers or commit strategic suicide
Overlooked in the increasingly heated debate over data centers, the backbone of the artificial intelligence ecosystem, is the strategic reality that data centers are vital for America’s national security in its three inextricably intertwined dimensions: military security, economic security, and political security. In our democratic federal structure, this debate, which ranges from hysteria fueled by ignorance and hype driven by wishful thinking, must and will play out at national, state, and local levels to resolve particular concerns such as a local zoning ordinance, a state sales tax exemption, or a federal nuclear energy operating license.