In Reply to: Wednesday:Better than Mon, less exciting than Fri* posted by mh on September 02, 2026 at 09:11:06
“The only reason that communities throughout the U.S.A. should not want” data centers “is if they want to end up being backwards and poor,” Trump said in a Truth Social post Monday.
When AOC was asked by MeidasTouch Network’s Pablo Manríquez for her response to Trump’s post, Ocasio-Cortez proposed putting one of the energy- and water-intensive facilities somewhere very close to the president.
“Ohh. I mean, how about we put one in Mar-a-Lago?” she replied, referring to Trump’s Palm Beach, Florida, home.
“I love that,” Ocasio-Cortez continued.
“Let’s put a data center up in Mar-a-Lago, and we’ll see how backwards and poor he is in response to that,” she added.