EXCLUSIVE: A GOP insider making the conservative case for regulating artificial intelligence development predicts President Donald Trump’s full-throated support for data center expansion will soon change after he hears from the American people on the midterm campaign trail.
In an interview with Fox News Digital, Amy Kremer, a close Trump ally, Republican National Committee member and founder of “Humans First,” warned that the voice of the average American is being left out of the ongoing AI data center debate. She believes that is about to change as the president prepares to hit the campaign trail in support of Republicans ahead of the midterms this fall.
Right now, Kremer asserted that Trump is “only hearing one side of the story from big tech.”
“He’s getting ready to go out on the campaign trail, and I think he’s going to hear more from the American people on the data center side of things. And I hope he does,” she said, adding, “I know the president, and his heart, and he would not like the way the Americans are being treated.”
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Kremer was pivotal in founding the modern Tea Party movement and through the years established several pro-Trump political action committees, including the “Great America PAC,” the first and largest grassroots organization founded in 2016 to support then-candidate Trump.
Now, she is the chairwoman of “Humans First,” a political group calling for an “America First approach to AI” that it says would keep the U.S. ahead of China while protecting American families, communities and jobs.
She said that while Trump has made it clear that he wants America to lead on AI development, she believes that innovation and safety are “not mutually exclusive.”
“I love the president. He has been an amazing president. I know he wants us to lead the world in technology and innovation, and I support him in that,” she said, while noting, “There’s this narrative out there that [with] innovation, you have to forego safety, and it’s just not accurate. It’s not true.”
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As the GOP gathers in Dallas for its first midterm convention, Humans First unveiled a new data center policy outline that it is urging the president and Republicans in Congress and state legislatures to adopt. The plan, obtained exclusively by Fox News Digital, calls for greater local control over data center development and rejects the use of eminent domain for land seizures.
The plan opposes federal and state “efforts to strip communities of that authority,” including through a federal data center moratorium, which many opponents of AI development have called for. Instead, the plan calls for local communities to be given the ability to welcome or reject new data center developments through zoning and land-use processes.
Additionally, the plan rejects what it describes as “blank-check tax breaks” and subsidies and states that “any incentives must be transparent and tied to enforceable benefits for the community.”
The plan calls for full transparency on data center development, stating that “before approval, communities deserve to know the project’s end user, electricity demand, water use, land requirements, infrastructure costs, tax incentives, permanent jobs and environmental impacts.”
It also calls for protection for ratepayers so that families and small businesses do not pay higher electric bills. Instead, it states that data centers should pay the full cost of the power generation, transmission, grid upgrades and infrastructure they require.
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Two other provisions address some of the most controversial aspects of AI data center development: local water usage and development on farmland, which the plan refers to as a “strategic American resource that should be protected.”
The way Kremer put it? She posited that “there are more regulations on a hot dog that you buy on a street corner in New York City than there are on these big tech companies with this technology.”
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“We are not anti-AI, we’re not anti-technology, and we’re not anti-data centers,” she explained. “What we are is we want the American people to have a seat at the table and a voice in this conversation.”
“We can lead on innovation, we absolutely can,” she said. “But that doesn’t mean that it has to be on the backs of the American taxpayers.”
