Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) on Wednesday called Democratic opposition to artificial intelligence and data center construction “lunacy” and “a China-first kind of a policy in our nation,” in the latest in a series of public breaks with the progressive wing of his party.
“I’ll be the one Democrat to just stand up and say that’s ridiculous,” Fetterman said in a Fox News interview. “You know, we have to be the people that build the chassis of AI.”
Fetterman was responding to Democratic calls for a federal moratorium on AI data center construction. The most prominent such proposal—the Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act introduced on March 25 by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.)—would pause new AI data center construction in the United States until federal safeguards are in place to protect workers, consumers, and the environment. The bill would also ban U.S. exports of AI computing infrastructure to countries without comparable safeguards….
Fetterman Says Democratic AI Moratorium Push Is ‘Lunacy,’ ‘China-First’
