Don’t fall for Bernie Sanders’s authoritarian AI power grab

Published June 9, 2026 2:12pm ET | Updated June 9, 2026 2:12pm ET



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A few months ago, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) cooked up a plan to slow the artificial intelligence sector, proposing a national moratorium on the construction of data centers that power the industry.

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