How the Data Center Dividend Can Make Shiny Happy People

0ShareNewsweek is a Trust Project memberSee more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Googleto see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Do you think Donald Trump is a secret R. E. M. fan? Trump was, wittingly or not, channeling “Shiny Happy People” when selling the virtues of data centers alongside some of Big Tech’s biggest names this week. They were gathered together to discuss how to win the global AI race without killing everyone. A noble mission. “This is a group that loves local communities,” Trump said, as the tech leaders around him stared like reluctant teenagers visiting an elderly relative, showing little enthusiasm for their supposed love of communities. These billionaire nerds are going to “work with local communities” on data centers to make them “very, very happy,” Trump said. How?