How Trump can fight data center bans

President Donald Trump has more authority to fight state and local data center moratoria than another executive order promising faster permits. He can direct federal agencies to secure computing capacity for national security missions, invoke existing laws to protect essential infrastructure, and challenge states that interfere with authorized federal operations.

Those powers offer a way to protect strategically important projects before new restrictions take effect and to fight those that are already in place. The administration needs to put them to work.