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Democrats must stop treating AI and data centers as a scourge — calling for a moratorium on data centers is a China-first policy, because if America doesn't build the AI chassis, China will.
Fetterman argues that Democratic calls for a moratorium on data centers effectively help China win the AI race. He frames AI as an incredible opportunity and refuses to let his party become Luddites, insisting America must build the AI infrastructure rather than cede it to China. ✦ AI generated
John Fetterman · All-In Podcast · 2026-06-10 · original ↗
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And AI is really, really important. And it will sometimes will put me at odds where the direction that the Democratic Party seems to be moving in that now. So now, moratorium for data centers. For me, that's a China first kinds of policy for that. I'm going to continue to push back that. I'm not going to describe that as a scourge. I'm going to describe that as an incredible new opportunity. [...] I'm not terrified by AI. Am I concerned about it? A 100% right now. And now Mythos and other concerns about mass hacking and weaponizing it that way. You know, that's coming. And now I think that should belong to America. You know, that, you know, America should build that chassis. And now that's why if we turn my party into where AI is the scourge or the cancer, I refuse to reject that because it's going to transform the world. Now it can come from us or it can come from China. Whose side are you going to be in? And a lot of the people that oppose that, now a lot of that opposition is funded by a lot of these groups that are aligned with CCP. So that's part of the danger right now.
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