Meet the MAGA darling mobilizing Americans against Big AI

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Amy Kremer
Amy Kremer is the cofounder of Women for Trump and Women for America First. Now she's taking on AI data centers.

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Rural Americans say they're worried AI data centers will drain their wallets

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Data Center sign
Many rural Americans are resisting data center developments.

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Fox News apologizes for airing Kevin O'Leary's claim that his Utah data center opponents are Chinese government proxies

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Kevin O'Leary
Kevin O'Leary has been one of the most vocal advocates of building more data centers.

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AI's next bottleneck is power. That's why I left the creator economy to build a data center startup.

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Patrice Becker and Leonhard Soenke standing in office
Patrice Becker (left) and Leonhard Soenke (right) founded a creator economy startup in 2021 — and recently pivoted to energy and data centers.

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Nvidia is quietly staffing up around its AI ambitions in outer space

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Jensen Huang smiling and wearing a black leather jacket.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.

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Kevin O'Leary has entered a new villain era

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Kevin O'Leary
O'Leary Ventures is developing data center campuses in Utah and Canada.

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Country music star Brad Paisley calls a proposed data center near the Nashville Zoo 'a monstrosity'

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Brad Paisley
Brad Paisley is urging Tennesseans to protest a proposed data center near the Nashville Zoo.

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Apple is charging you more and blaming AI data centers. That's a big deal.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook at the company's annual developer conference, June 2026
Apple CEO Tim Cook says the boom in AI data centers has made price hikes "unavoidable".

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Polaroid tells people to jump in some water 'before the data centers drink it all up'

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Polaroid's new billboard on Coney Island Beach in Brooklyn.
Polaroid's new billboard on Coney Island Beach in Brooklyn.

Polaroid

SoftBank CEO questions Elon Musk's vision of AI data centers in space: 'What's the point?'

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SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son.
SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son answered questions this week at a shareholders' meeting.

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