Trump Calls Huang to Denounce AI Data-Center Opposition as a ‘Hoax’

President Donald Trump used a live call with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to give AI data-center construction an unusually direct presidential endorsement. Speaking to Huang’s audience at the All-In Summit, Trump called opposition a “hoax,” argued that the facilities enrich people and states, and rejected the case for additional AI regulation.

The call came while Huang was speaking onstage in Los Angeles on September 14. Huang put Trump on speakerphone, according to videos cited by CNBC, giving the president a chance to address an AI industry gathering through the chief executive of the company whose GPUs are being used in AI data centers.

Trump’s intervention was more than a compliment to Huang. It framed construction as an economic priority and treated resistance to it as illegitimate. He said data centers “make people wealthy” and “make states wealthy,” presenting the facilities as a source of broadly shared gains rather than simply an industrial investment.

Trump paired that economic pitch with a broader argument against slowing or further regulating AI. In social-media posts, he said he saw no need for additional AI regulation and characterized recent AI concerns as both a “hoax” and a “scam.” His position in the call therefore extended from physical infrastructure to the policy debate around the technology that infrastructure supports.

The president also cast the issue in geopolitical terms. He said opposition to data-center construction could be coming from China and said the United States would not let that happen. That assertion was presented as Trump’s view during the call, not as evidence identifying the source of any particular opposition.

Huang did not challenge Trump’s framing on the call. After Trump said the United States would not allow the opposition he described to prevail, Huang replied, “We’re not going to let that happen, sir.” The exchange publicly aligned the president’s build-first message with the leader of a company supplying the chips inside the facilities at the center of that message.

Trump described data centers as the “oil of the next 20, 25 years.” The comparison places AI computing infrastructure in the category of a strategic economic resource. But his remarks left the underlying dispute intact: Trump offered an emphatic case for building, while characterizing the objections themselves as a deception rather than engaging their substance.