President Donald Trump on Saturday announced plans to form an “AI Force” and appoint an “AI ‘Czar’” in the near future, posting to Truth Social that he will not “hinder or stifle the Growth of this incredible Industry” but will “cherish it, help it, and watch over it, as it grows,” while also looking for “BAD” through the existing Criminal and Civil Justice System. Trump’s announcement follows warnings from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, xAI CEO Elon Musk, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman that AI development should slow down after a series of close calls involving its range of functions. Trump compared the backlash against data centers and AI to issues he said were previously addressed by him and his presidential administrations, and said the data center attack “has largely failed,” so critics “are going straight at AI.” Around 75% of Americans oppose data centers being built near where they live, according to a Gallup poll published in May. The amount of American jobs supported by the data center industry rose from 2.9 million in 2017 to 4.7 million in 2023, according to a February 2025 study by PwC commissioned for the Data Center Coalition.