Democrats Fight Over AI Like It's Political Taco Tuesday in 2028
KEY POINTS
- ā¢Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, both potential 2028 presidential candidates, have welcomed AI investments including Amazon's data centers and OpenAI's $billions Stargate project.
- ā¢Progressive Democrats such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ro Khanna, and Senator Bernie Sanders demand regulation of AI, warning about worker displacement, environmental costs, and public health risks.
- ā¢Labor unions remain divided, with LIUNA supporting AI data centers built with union labor, while Teamsters call for human operators in self-driving trucks; Senator John Fetterman backs Teamsters' push.
The 2028 Democratic primary is turning into an AI cage match featuring Josh Shapiro and Gretchen Whitmer hyping multibillion-dollar Amazon and OpenAI data centers like Pennsylvania and Michigan just won the AI Super Bowl. Shapiro promised to crush China by shipping AI jobs like Amazon boxes, while Whitmer celebrated 4,450 high-pay union jobs destined to build digital castles, plus 1,500 more community roles nobody specified. Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders staged a digital coup calling for a moratorium on AI data centers citing sky-high electricity and 'kids taking their own lives' due to AI chatbots. AOC declined to openly support a moratorium but reminded Congress that failing to regulate AI risks triggering public health disastersābecause nothing says dystopia like chatbots and rising electric bills. Labor unions are split: LIUNA president Brent Booker wants those data centers built union-style, while the Teamsters demand human chauffeurs for self-driving trucks to avoid a robo-apocalypse. Pennsylvania's John Fetterman backs the Teamsters, but Shapiroās camp ghosted the question. AI is transforming politics into a reality show where the stakes are your next paycheck or, apparently, your mental health.
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Democratsā 2028 AI debate boils down to: build giant glowing server farms and job fairy tales or stop before the robots jack your electricity bill and sanity.
When politicians hype AI like a blockbuster movie but forget the plot involves crushing jobs and overheating power grids, you know itās a modern American tragedy.
Nothing screams bipartisan unity like cheering on scary new tech that'll both give you a job and possibly end your ability to pay bills or finish childhood.
Source: Axios | Published: 12/21/2025 | Author: Alex Thompson
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