AI Data Center Boom Threatens Trump’s Manufacturing Revival

If you’re searching for a symbol of the wild ride the US economy has been on over the past decade and where it’s going next, the former General Motors Co. plant in Lordstown, Ohio, checks a lot of boxes. President Donald Trump held a rally in nearby Youngstown in July 2017 at which he told the crowd, “Don’t sell your house,” because “we’re going to get those jobs coming back, and we’re going to fill up those factories or rip them down and build brand-new ones.” GM shuttered the facility less than two years later, and then a startup moved ...