{"id":101459,"date":"2025-10-24T12:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T12:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/101459\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T12:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T12:34:07","slug":"ai-data-center-boom-threatens-trumps-manufacturing-revival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/101459\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Data Center Boom Threatens Trump\u2019s Manufacturing Revival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">If you\u2019re searching for a symbol of the wild ride the US economy has been on over the past decade and where it\u2019s going next, the former General Motors Co. plant in Lordstown, Ohio, checks a lot of boxes. President Donald Trump held a rally in nearby Youngstown in July 2017 at which he told the crowd, \u201cDon\u2019t sell your house,\u201d because \u201cwe\u2019re going to get those jobs coming back, and we\u2019re going to fill up those factories or rip them down and build brand-new ones.\u201d GM shuttered the facility less than two years later, and then a startup moved in, planning to make electric cars, only for it to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-06-27\/lordstown-files-for-bankruptcy-after-foxconn-deal-falls-through\" title=\"US Truck Startup Lordstown Files for Bankruptcy After Foxconn Deal Falls Through\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">go bankrupt<\/a> by 2023. Now some of the biggest names in tech\u2014Foxconn, OpenAI and SoftBank\u2014have hatched a plan to repurpose the 6.2 million-square-foot facility into a manufacturing hub for artificial intelligence equipment. A demonstration data center will also be built on the site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The AI boom is coming to America\u2019s industrial heartland, which speaks to how the economy is being transformed\u2014even propped up\u2014by a surge in investment in software, chipmaking and data centers. But the Lordstown plant\u2019s reinvention raises the question: Is the exuberance around the technology that Trump has enthusiastically endorsed getting in the way of his goal of making America great again at churning out things like gasoline-powered cars, steel and furniture? Access to capital, power and people is key to the success of any construction or manufacturing project\u2014and right now AI is gobbling up all three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you\u2019re searching for a symbol of the wild ride the US economy has been on over the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,24300,44530,15704,2127,11507,4990,60738,61,4082,60,150,6604,80,3591],"class_list":["post-101459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-businessweek","tag-capital-expenditures","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-construction","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-economics","tag-general-motors-co","tag-ie","tag-infrastructure","tag-ireland","tag-jobs","tag-openai-inc","tag-technology","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}