{"id":228343,"date":"2026-03-27T18:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T22:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/bernie-sanders-and-aoc-want-to-sink-the-ai-economy\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T18:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T22:40:11","slug":"bernie-sanders-and-aoc-want-to-sink-the-ai-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/bernie-sanders-and-aoc-want-to-sink-the-ai-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders and AOC Want to Sink the AI Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/article\/aoc-bernie-sanders-ai-chips-data-centers\">Bernie Sanders and AOC Want to Sink the AI Economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/article\/aoc-bernie-sanders-ai-chips-data-centers\">https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/article\/aoc-bernie-sanders-ai-chips-data-centers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-27 18:20:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.city-journal.org\">www.city-journal.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Artificial intelligence is currently the white-hot center of America\u2019s economy. Big Tech is investing more than $750 billion in data centers this year, mostly domestically. Unsurprisingly, wages for construction workers and the skilled trades are skyrocketing. Communities like Virginia\u2019s Loudoun County are almost covering their entire operating budgets through data-center taxes.<\/p>\n<p>Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Bernie Sanders want to put a stop to all of that. On Wednesday, the pair jointly proposed a universal halt to America\u2019s AI economy. Their bill would enact a moratorium on new and existing data-center growth as well as a ban on exporting AI chips. The pause would last until Congress passes a \u201cframework\u201d to regulate the industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cta-heading\" style=\"line-height: 28px;\">Finally, a reason to check your email.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cta-subheading\" style=\"line-height: 22px;\">Sign up for our <strong>free newsletter<\/strong> today.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the degrowth duo want to tie up America\u2019s most innovative and globally competitive industry using the same bureaucratic process that has recently resulted in TSA airport security lines snaking through terminals and parking garages. And they want to take advantage of Americans\u2019 understandable fears about new technology to impose their radical beliefs on the nation\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a far cry from how we used to think about growth. Back in 1996, as the World Wide Web was spreading but before the dot-com boom took off, a bipartisan group of legislators passed the Telecommunications Act, which opened up the nascent internet economy to bountiful innovation with a carefully crafted regulatory framework. That bill passed 414\u201316 in the House and 91\u20135 in the Senate. It\u2019s unimaginable that a law with such a singular focus on openness and American growth could win such broad support today.<\/p>\n<p>What Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders imagine goes hard in the opposite direction. They want to take Ezra Klein\u2019s \u201ceverything-bagel liberalism\u201d and add in even more&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/article\/aoc-bernie-sanders-ai-chips-data-centers\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Sanders and AOC Want to Sink the AI Economy https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/article\/aoc-bernie-sanders-ai-chips-data-centers Publish Date: 2026-03-27 18:20:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":228344,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media4.manhattan-institute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/AOC-Bernie-Sanders-AI-chips-data-centers-GettyImages-2268357158.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-228343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228345,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228343\/revisions\/228345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}