Earlier this week, I reported that President Donald Trump on Monday raged against growing calls for greater regulation of artificial intelligence and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s plea for an AI slowdown: “Whoever wins AI wins“.
He tossed another Trump-bomb into the AI pacing debate by likening the scare tactics being used in reporting to those associated with the climate change hoax.
“The people that say AI is going to destroy the World, and that Data Centers are bad for your neighborhood, are the same people that said, just a short time ago, that the World would be extinguished by ‘Climate Change,’” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post Monday afternoon.
In his fifth post about AI on Monday, Trump called himself the “Hoax Buster.”
“I’m right now breaking another Hoax — That AI is going to take over, consume, and destroy the World, and that Robots will be marching into our Cities, and getting rid of us all!” he wrote.
In an avalanche of posts throughout Monday, Trump repeatedly referenced AI fears as a “hoax” and a “scam” and lambasted the public backlash to data centers, saying the only reason for the pushback was “because the United States is leading, by a lot, every other country.”
BREAKING: President Trump compares AI and data center warnings to climate change “hoax.” pic.twitter.com/J8gPDjUu58
— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 14, 2026
Trump’s comparison between warnings about AI and warnings about climate change is not a claim that data centers have no costs, that artificial intelligence poses no risks, or that environmental review is illegitimate. He merely observes that America has seen this recurring political formula before: Identify a real concern, inflate it into an all-purpose emergency, elevate a credentialed class of “experts,” and use regulation and litigation to halt projects that voters might otherwise support.
That is the climate-lawfare model. And, as I see it, the same machinery is being wheeled out against AI.
The climate debate has produced decades of apocalyptic headlines, emergency declarations, regulations, permitting delays, and costly energy mandates.
Earth’s climate has changed since the first day of its existence. It will continue to do so until the planet is consumed by the Sun 4 billion years from now.
My objection is to a “climate-crisis” industry that treats every heat wave, storm, or drought as proof of imminent catastrophe and insists that Americans must accept less reliable, more expensive energy to demonstrate moral seriousness. In the case of AI, the catastrophes are “Killer AI”, “bioweapons”, and energy-hungry, polluting data centers. Leaders in that industry are asking us to “pace” our AI development in the name of safety.
And, as with climate change, the public must accept every sacrifice the “experts” demand in the name of an emergency.
Now replace carbon dioxide with computing power. The new alarms involve data-center electricity demand, water consumption, noise, grid stress, and hypothetical AI disasters. Some concerns are entirely legitimate. A giant data center should not shift grid-upgrade costs onto households, strain local water supplies, or place backup generation units near neighborhood homes without public scrutiny.
But “evaluate the impacts” is not the same as “ban the project.” The leap from reasonable safeguards to permanent obstruction is straight from the climate change playbook.
I would also like to note that OpenAI recently disrupted a likely China-linked influence operation that used AI-generated content posing as grassroots American opposition to data centers. The material reportedly played on real concerns involving electricity prices, water use, and administration technology policy. In other words, our most significant foreign adversary exploited genuine American worries and channeled them into a system already designed to delay, litigate, and obstruct, using the same playbook followed by the NetZero nuts.
Beijing does not need to invent every objection. It only needs to amplify the objections most likely to stop our country from expanding our own AI capabilities.
However, I will point out with some amusement that Karma may be visiting China soon.
China’s Top Spy Chief Warns A.I. Is a Threat to Party Rule
Even as Beijing urges the United States not to hype the dangers of A.I., its own spy chief is framing the technology as a threat to the Communist Party’s security. @lilkuo https://t.co/PJKyRaAMGq via @NYTimes
— Ashis Basu 🇨🇦 ashis.bluesky.social (@BasuAshis) September 14, 2026
In conclusion, Trump is correct that whatever this recent AI drama is, the fears are not proportional to the realities.
Trump is right to reject demands that America slow its AI development while China races ahead. We can protect local communities and address real concerns about power, water, and infrastructure without letting activists and lawsuits block every new data center or AI program enhancement.
AI has risks, but America should manage them wisely and not blindly surrender its technological lead to China because of ginned-up fears that emanate from a strategy that has been used by climate cultists for the past several decades….which I am happy to report is also being reversed by Trump’s team.
— NovemberRain 🇺🇸 (@NovemberRain243) September 15, 2026
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