Conservatives revolted Monday against President Donald Trump’s latest screed against Americans opposing his data center push, with one conservative radio host declaring the president had gone “full techno-fascist.”
Trump lashed out at “communities throughout the U.S.A.” Monday for resisting new data center construction, a signature priority he moved to fast-track last year via executive order, telling them they will “end up being backwards and poor” should they continue to resist.
A majority of Americans now hold an unfavorable view of new data center construction, with a recent poll from Embold Research finding that three-quarters of Americans would oppose construction of a new data center in their community. The backlash to data centers has been “uniquely bipartisan,” CNN noted Monday.
And, while a number of Republican politicians have since adjusted their rhetoric on data centers to not create electoral liabilities for themselves, Trump instead doubled down on his support for the emerging technology with a cry to “let Data Reign,” a position that was met with scorn.
“Trump goes full Techno-Fascist screaming ‘LET DATA REIGN’ and embracing data center land grabs. Gross,” wrote Shannon Joy, a prominent conservative radio host, in a social media post on X.
Liz Dickinson, a conservative political operative and former CIA intelligence analyst, described Trump’s pro-data center rant as “more tone deaf, tiresome comments.”
“We who live among data centers oppose them for many reasons,” Dickinson wrote in a social media post on X. “Considering Trump let China buy US farmland, he should tone down feigned concern about its influence. Any candidate supporting these in areas they already exist will lose the midterms.”
Even Trump’s followers on his own social media platform Truth Social seemed to have mixed reactions to his remarks, with Truth Social user “usUltra MAGA Prayer Warrior” telling the president: “I have to disagree with this one.”
Internal GOP polling on Americans’ views on data centers has sent Republicans scrambling. A National Republican Senatorial Committee memo obtained by Axios warned that the topic of data centers had “become a sleeper issue for the entire election cycle.”
More tone deaf, tiresome comments. We who live among data centers oppose them for many reasons. Considering Trump let China buy US farmland, he should tone down feigned concern about its influence. Any candidate supporting these in areas they already exist will lose the midterms. pic.twitter.com/bgwfRAQMP2 — Liz Dickinson
(@lizdickinson8) August 31, 2026
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