{"id":24652,"date":"2026-08-31T18:37:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T16:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/31\/trump-says-datacenter-opponents-want-to-end-up-being-backwards-and-poor\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T18:37:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T16:37:46","slug":"trump-says-datacenter-opponents-want-to-end-up-being-backwards-and-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/31\/trump-says-datacenter-opponents-want-to-end-up-being-backwards-and-poor\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says datacenter opponents \u2018want to end up being backwards and poor\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three-quarters of Americans said in a recent poll that they oppose datacenters being built next to their homes<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has criticized communities pushing back against datacenter projects across the US amid a growing backlash, warning those that reject them risk becoming \u201cbackwards and poor\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>As controversy surrounding local datacenter plans continues to swirl around election campaigns nationwide ahead of November\u2019s midterm elections, the US president declared Americans \u201cwill only have yourselves to blame\u201d if they are canceled.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/31\/trump-datacenter-comments\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4e43275a34fc1f9ad0b5ccfc78afb985d764000d\/90_0_6829_5464\/master\/6829.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=21a94f3da43639216c47f8c5dfeb4573\" title=\"Trump says datacenter opponents \u2018want to end up being backwards and poor\u2019\" \/>Three-quarters of Americans said in a recent poll that they oppose datacenters being built next to their homes<br \/>\nDonald Trump has criticized communities pushing back against datacenter projects across the US amid a growing backlash, warning those that reject them risk becoming \u201cbackwards and poor\u201d.<br \/>\nAs controversy surrounding local datacenter plans continues to swirl around election campaigns nationwide ahead of November\u2019s midterm elections, the US president declared Americans \u201cwill only have yourselves to blame\u201d if they are canceled. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three-quarters of Americans said in a recent poll that they oppose datacenters being built next to their homes Donald Trump has criticized communities pushing back against datacenter projects across the US amid a growing backlash, warning those that reject them risk becoming \u201cbackwards and poor\u201d. As controversy surrounding local datacenter plans continues to swirl around &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/31\/trump-says-datacenter-opponents-want-to-end-up-being-backwards-and-poor\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump says datacenter opponents \u2018want to end up being backwards and poor\u2019<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24652"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}