CHANDLER, Ariz. — Former Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema had a warning for a Phoenix suburb that is debating whether to allow a data center.

During a planning and zoning commission meeting for Chandler on Oct. 15, Sinema told the city council that the Trump administration is clear about the need to invest in artificial intelligence and set up data centers nationwide.

Chandler is a community of nearly 300,000 located southeast of Phoenix.

“Chandler right now has the opportunity to determine how and when these new, innovative AI data centers will be built,” she said.

“When federal preemption comes, we’ll no longer have that privilege. It will just occur.”

What did Kyrsten Sinema say

The former senator was making her case for the Price Road Innovation Campus, a potentially $2.5-billion pr

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