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Bernie Sanders Wants To Pause New Data Centers To Stop the Economy From Growing Too Much
Christian Britschgi | 12.17.2025 4:50 PM
The United States is leading a global data center boom. Investors are plowing some $7 trillion into the infrastructure necessary to support AI development, with 40 percent of that investment happening here in the United States.
This boom in data center investment is so pronounced that many analysts argue it's propping up an economy that'd otherwise be wobbling under the strain of tariffs and high borrowing costs.
Some skeptics credibly argue that the money flowing into AI research and the physical infrastructure needed to support it is a bubble that will eventually pop.
Unconvinced by the skeptics is Sen. Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.), who seems to believe that data center........
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