House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries blasted Republicans Monday for being “pro-data center without any restraints,” making his strongest rebuke yet of the tech industry’s massive infrastructure buildout as it becomes a key issue in midterm campaigns.
“Donald Trump and Republicans are divorced from reality,” Jeffries said at a Capitol Hill news conference. “They think that the affordability crisis is a hoax. Donald Trump and Republicans have made clear they love inflation. Donald Trump and Republicans have told the American people directly, ‘We don’t think about your personal financial situation.’”
“So the Republicans — it should come as no surprise — are pro-data center without any restraints,” he continued.
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“House Republicans voted to preempt state and local authorities from regulating data centers at all,” Jeffries said. “And every single House Republican but one or two voted to unleash data centers on the American people in an unfettered fashion. That’s facts, right there.”
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Jefferies wants them too.
He wants “restraints” the same way Nixon created the EPA…
An agency with teeth was close to forming, so Nixon made one that couldn’t enforce anything, so he could say we already had one.
Don’t trust neoliberals tonreign in big tech.
Looking for some easy good PR after meeting with Kushner.
Easy there, you might get blasted too!
So this is what his pr team told him to do. ?
The HPC Data Center lobby probably just forgot to send his check, I’m sure it’s on the way now and he’ll be quiet about it.
I guess I’m glad he’s saying it, but I’m entirely sure this unserious fool would personally grind children into the concrete foundations of new data centers if his corporate paymasters wanted him to.
Fuck that guy and his genocide supporting ass
This - and thank you.
So brave, opposing what 80% of the country opposes, even Republicans.
Yet last week he flat out said he didn’t support Universal Health Care.
He and Schmuck are 50% of the reason that MAGA regained power, and neither have shown any reason to believe that they would lead effectively against MAGA in the next round. These losers had their chance, and the blew it over and over.
It’s time for the MAGA comedy act of Schmuck & Jeffries to get the hook, and be dragged offstage. Otherwise, MAGA will win the presidency in 2028.
So what’ll he do, put Fetterman in charge of regulating them?
I can just hear him saying this in his stuttering, milquetoast voice.
Haha, wow, what an iconoclast.
Kushner: So I just want you to say you hate data centers, and I’ll give you priority access to shares when these AI startups post their IPOs. Also, do nothing about Israel, and I’ll get you in on these sweet waterfront properties in Gaza.
Jeffries: Yessir!
