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  "description": "Senator calls for an array of new taxes on AI and data centers",
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  "textContent": "WASHINGTON, May 28, 2026 — Sen. **Elizabeth Warren** is calling for sweeping new taxes on Artificial Intelligence, targeting data centers and unrealized stock gains.\n\nIn a May 27 op-ed in Time Magazine, the Massachusetts Democrat argued that a wealth tax on AI billionaires was necessary to prevent mass layoffs, a financial crash, and creation of a “permanent underclass.”\n\nSee Breakfast Club Membership Options!\n\n\n                            See Breakfast Club Membership Options\n                        \n\n“**Jeff Bezos** and **Sam Altman** shouldn’t pay lower tax rates than the workers they fire,” Warren said.\n\nWarren also proposed “bigger and bolder” taxes, such as an excise tax on data centers, which would conceivably target the electrical consumption of hyperscale data centers on a per-kilowatt basis.\n\nData center companies already pay significant sales and property taxes, among other costs, but the amount varies significantly by location, and Warren believes the developers are not paying their fair share.\n\n“A single AI data center uses as much electricity as 100,000 households—and utility companies are passing the upgrade costs to you,” Warren wrote in a May 12 post on X.\n\nWarren’s wealth tax on AI is not the first time that she has proposed the idea. In March 2026, Warren reintroduced a bill that would levy a two percent annual tax on the 260,000 Americans who have a net worth of more than $50 million.\n\n“If we overhaul our tax code and tax AI, we can use that money to build a country that works for everyone,” Warren said. “A country where health care is treated as a human right, where every American is guaranteed a good job, and where education isn’t a privilege reserved for the wealthy. That’s what I believe taxing AI promises.”",
  "title": "Elizabeth Warren: We Need to Tax AI",
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