Trump Calls Data Center Opposition a 'Hoax' in Nvidia CEO Call
President Trump phoned Nvidia's Jensen Huang at the All-In Summit and dismissed resistance to AI data center expansion as a hoax.
President Donald Trump phoned Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang live at the All-In Summit, publicly dismissing opposition to AI data center construction as a "hoax" in a rare real-time presidential intervention into the tech industry's infrastructure debate.
The call came as Trump also took to his social media platform to rebuke Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who had suggested the artificial intelligence industry consider slowing its pace of development — a position Trump flatly rejected through his public posts.
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The president's dual-front pushback signals an aggressive White House posture in favor of rapid AI expansion, aligning the administration firmly with hardware and infrastructure advocates like Nvidia, whose chips power the data centers at the center of the controversy.
Trump's framing of data center opposition as a "hoax" echoes language he has used on other policy battlegrounds and could carry significant weight with regulators, local governments, and energy planners who are currently weighing approvals for large-scale AI infrastructure projects across the United States.
The exchange underscores a deepening divide within the AI world between those who argue development must accelerate to maintain American competitiveness and those, like Amodei, who caution that safety considerations warrant a more measured approach. Continue reading at US Top News and Analysis.
