Official Pushing Data Centers on Public Lands Has Millions Invested in AI

Monday, November 09, 2026

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, who is heavily invested in the AI industry, is leading the charge to allow tech companies to build data centers on the public lands he oversees.

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Sec. Burgum has done incredible damage--from opening the Arctic to drilling to paying off energy companies for canceling offshore wind leases. Now he wants to give away 17K acres of public land to build data centers. Related: HE OWNS TENS OF MILLIONS IN AI STOCKS! This is textbook corruption.

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-- Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (@pingree.house.gov) 12:00 PM Â· Nov 9, 2026

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Much of his (Borgum's) wealth is held in Arthur Ventures, an investment firm he co-founded, according to his 2026 financial disclosure form, which has not been previously reported. Between $18.1 million and $64.4 million of those investments are in AI companies, according to an analysis of the companies' marketing materials shared with ProPublica by public lands advocacy group Save Our Parks. (Government financial disclosure forms allow filers to report wide ranges instead of the specific value of their investments.)

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#1 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2026-11-09 10:46 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

What a sleazy crew.

#2 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-11-09 01:34 PM | Reply

And the diabolical Trumpf junta is planning on cutting down the all important Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS).

No environmental sacrilege is too terrible for these pit fiends.

Words are simply insufficient to describe these covetous, destructive miscreants, so here is some plain English:

"FUNNY"

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-11-09 02:42 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Maybe we should xxxx him.

#4 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-11-09 05:00 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

One of the most important works of legislation the next congress can pass is for strong, comprehensive ethics in government, including the disclosure of financial holdings by all elected officials in Washington, all cabinet members, all federal judges (including SCOTUS), and their families, and the tightening of rules on trading ad emoluments. It is downright sickening that Congresscritters, Senators, the guy in the WH, his cabinet secretaries and others in high office are so openly grifting and self-dealing. This must stop...

#5 | Posted by catdog at 2026-11-09 05:02 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Doug Burgum should be doxxed and swatted. Self serving corrupt piece of ----.

#6 | Posted by moder8 at 2026-11-09 05:07 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

My property, your profits? Now, if you would just set up a payment schedule so we the people could get a monthly dividend...

#7 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-11-10 06:46 AM | Reply

Hmm... this thread looks familar.

#8 | Posted by sentinel at 2026-11-10 12:36 PM | Reply

All this corruption in and around Trump contributed to Republicans getting their asssssssses kicked a week ago.

#9 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2026-11-11 12:36 AM | Reply

I recommend we designate Mar Lago as "New Tyburn" and proceed accordingly.

#10 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2026-11-11 09:29 AM | Reply

The masses have bought the Chinese sourced propaganda concerning data centers. We need them, they are critical to our survival as a nation (not that most of you care about that). Putting them on public land away from useful idiot nimby's is the one way to get them built.

#11 | Posted by visitor_ at 2026-11-11 10:28 AM | Reply

China needs U.S. data centers, not the other way around.

You people are disgusting traitors and should be handled as such, imo.

#12 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2026-11-11 10:48 AM | Reply

OK, we need data centers.

But not every tech-bro MAGA @$$ kisser needs to have their own 4e6 sqft data center(s) in the middle of public spaces, hogging up public resources and driving costs up, etc.

And they don't need to buy up and warehouse GPUs that very likely will be obsolete by the time the data center is even built.

I agree with those who predict a huge AI infrastructure overbuild. Similar to telecom, only the infrastructure (cable) was eventually used (didn't go obsolete).

#13 | Posted by horstngraben at 2026-11-11 11:41 AM | Reply

Similar to telecom, only the infrastructure (cable) was eventually used (didn't go obsolete).

#13 | POSTED BY HORSTNGRABEN

Interesting point. How long will we even need all these data centers? Is anyone actually studying the future sustainability of these technologies yet?

Phone lines are practically obsolete now. Most of the systems I spent hundreds or even thousands of hours training on and installed and maintained all the way up thru the 2000's have gone or are going to soon be obsolete and overcome and replaced by the latest technologies.

#14 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-11-11 11:56 AM | Reply

Too bad Donner wasn't around 150 years ago to tell ATT that their copper network wouldn't be needed, in 150 years. We don't use the telegraph infrastructure any more either. Do you want to make the case that it should never have been built?

#15 | Posted by visitor_ at 2026-11-11 12:31 PM | Reply

Do you want to make the case that it should never have been built?

#15 | POSTED BY VISITOR_

Welcome to the future.

Technology is moving us into another unknown future even than faster ever. Decisions we make today will decide whether there is a future for humanity.

Today's inventions are obsolete in years now. Not decades or centuries. Years. Months sometimes.

Also if I was around 150 years ago then I would not be around today. That would be a real bummer for my family.

#16 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-11-11 12:50 PM | Reply

Well if they're on PUBLIC lands, then the PUBLIC is the landlord, and should get to decide how much rent to charge them.

#17 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-11-11 02:12 PM | Reply