Exclusive – Secretary Doug Burgum: ‘Foreign Source Dark Money’ Fueling Data Center Misinformation

Exclusive – Secretary Doug Burgum: ‘Foreign Source Dark Money’ Fueling Data Center Misinformation


Breitbart News on Monday hosted Interior Secretary and National Energy Dominance Council Chairman Doug Burgum for a policy discussion titled “Harnessing American Power,” during which Burgum said he is confident in America’s technological leadership but concerned about barriers to building AI data centers.

“I don’t worry about us not having technological leadership. I worry about us on the ‘build, baby, build,’ because there are some states that literally are passing bans on AI data centers, and it’s not organic and local,” Burgum said.

“Some of this is foreign source dark money coming in, and the people that used to fight on climate change have shifted. They don’t talk climate change because they realize it’s a losing argument,” Burgum said before characterizing their messaging this way: “‘I can’t get people excited about one degree of climate change, but, man, I can lie to them about why their electric bill

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