'Absolute threat': Marjorie Taylor Greene publicly breaks with Trump over key policy issue

Even Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) — who has consistently remained one of President Donald Trump's biggest supporters in Congress — isn't a fan of his latest policy.

In a lengthy Thursday night post to her congressional account on X, Greene came out swinging against Trump's latest executive order (EO) on artificial intelligence (AI). The Georgia Republican said she had "many concerns" about both the danger AI poses to the environment as well as Trump's position against states regulating it.

"My deep concerns are that the EO demands rapid AI expansion with little to no guardrails and breaks," she wrote. "It also contains the threat of withholding federal funds from states who regulate AI, which is an absolute threat to federalism and why I strongly opposed the AI state moratorium originally in the BBB [Big Beautiful Bill]."

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"Rushed AI expansion and data centers being built all over the country from state to state with no plan in regards to environmental and critical water supply impact has massive future implications and problems," Greene continued. "... When you build something that requires a HIGH water demand, it will always take water away from others - that means people, cities, businesses, and surrounding counties and states."

Greene's assessment of AI's impact on local water supplies is accurate, with Bloomberg reporting in May that AI data centers "consume immense amounts of water" in order to meet demand. According to Bloomberg, many of those data centers are in areas where freshwater resources are quickly drying up, like southern Arizona and central Texas. The outlet further reported that local communities may soon have to "compete with data center operators to access clean water."

"Data centers are like a black holes when it comes to water requirements. They consume massive amounts of water for cooling, literally millions of gallons per day," Greene tweeted. "... Just wait and see how bad lawsuits will become when counties are competing for data centers, in order to get rid of county property taxes, and the unintended results is new data centers that steal the water from surrounding homes and neighboring counties and states."

As the Georgia congresswoman mentioned, the original version of the BBB imposed a 10-year moratorium on states regulating AI (Greene admitted she made a mistake in voting for the original bill that included the provision). That language was later stripped out after 17 Republican governors sent Trump a letter railing against the moratorium.

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Click here to read Greene's entire post on X.