The Trump administration, ever attuned to the will of the people, gave them a very rude gesture! They now want to put them on public land, out of reach of the voters. But they will still use vast amounts of water and electricity, which the voters oppose!
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, who is heavily invested in the AI industry, is leading the charge to allow tech companies to build data centers on the public lands he oversees.ProPublicaby Mark OlaldeNovember 6, 2026The Trump administration has likened the need to build out the nation’s artificial intelligence infrastructure to the Manhattan Project, the World War II effort that produced the world’s first atomic bomb.The White House’s point person on the effort, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, has spoken of the “AI arms race” with China as an existential issue for the nation. “AI is manufacturing intelligence, and, if we don’t manufacture more intelligence than our adversaries, it affects every job, every company and every industry,” he said during his Senate confirmation hearing in January 2025.But advancing the administration’s AI objectives also could benefit Burgum’s own finances.Much of his wealth is held in Arthur Ventures, an investment firm he co-founded, according to his 2026 financial disclosure form, which has not been previously reported. Between $18.1 million and $64.4 million of those investments are in AI companies, according to an analysis of the companies’ marketing materials shared with ProPublica by public lands advocacy group Save Our Parks. (Government financial disclosure forms allow filers to report wide ranges instead of the specific value of their investments.)
But you know he is not alone in owning AI and data center stocks; Trump leads the parade.
Citizens for an Ethical GovernmentBy Lauren White and Alyssa MeimanOctober 1, 2026President Trump owned between $2.9 million and $9.5 million in investments in companies that CREW identified as owning, operating or providing infrastructure for data centers at the end of 2025, according to CREW’s review of his 2026 public financial disclosure. Those totals represent, at a minimum, a more than 600% increase in the value of Trump’s investments in the same category of companies at the end of 2024.Despite overwhelming public opposition, Trump and his administration have taken action to promote and aid data centers, potentially padding his bottom line. Trump has also repeatedly used his social media platform, Truth Social, to promote the industry online, including one recent post claiming, “AI, and Data Centers, will be the Greatest Economic Development Engine in History — Bigger than Oil, Gold, Diamonds, or even the Internet.”
However, he is not alone... The Nation of Change writes...
Officials across the Trump administration also stand to profit from the White House’s support for AI and data centers. For example, 380 of President Donald Trump’s political appointees or their spouses hold stocks or have other financial connections to Nvidia, which has become the world’s most valuable company thanks to the data center boom. More than 320 have ties to Alphabet, Google’s parent company, which plans to spend at least $195 billion this year building data centers and AI-related technology. And more than 240 are invested in or otherwise have financial ties to Meta Platforms, which is developing a “fleet” of data centers. This is according to an analysis of records added last week to the Trump Team Financials database developed by ProPublica to make accessible the financial disclosures of administration officials.
Trump is their cash cow; his Cabinet is just like the ol' Tammany Hall ring.
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