Authored by Jeremy Lott via The Epoch Times,
Former economic advisers from the Obama and Trump administrations have issued a roadmap for what they see as a way forward on future data center construction across America.
Democrat Robert Wolf and Republican Stephen Moore pitched a "bipartisan framework" to navigate the current controversies surrounding AI data centers in a report released last week.
They call for a middle ground approach based on federal guidelines that address five key areas, including ratepayer protection, energy security, environmental stewardship, transparency and community engagement, and local authority over land use.
"America should neither surrender data center development to a regulatory free-for-all nor freeze it through blanket moratoriums," the advisers say.
Some aspects of their pitch are at odds with ideas that President Donald Trump has shared as he stumps for candidates around the country.
"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 wrote in an Aug. 31 Truth Social post that the report highlights.
"If they want to be successful and rich, with far lower taxes and jobs all over the place, let Data Reign."
Trump also wants to use the federal government's public lands for future data centers, in response to successful efforts by many community ac
