A growing number of Americans are asking questions about AI’s rapid growth.
The same establishment Never Trumpers who opposed Trump in 2016 and 2024 are pushing back.
And now Mark Levin attacked AI skeptics, and what he said will leave them fuming
What Levin Actually Said on Life, Liberty and Levin
During a recent broadcast of FNC’s Life, Liberty & Levin, host Mark Levin unloaded on the growing chorus of voices stoking fear about AI and data centers — a reaction he described as bordering on hysteria.
He didn’t hedge. He didn’t soften it for the critics.
“Relax, America!” Levin said. “Relax. It’s going to be fine. Don’t let these experts and these surrogates and these members of Congress get you all worked up.”
He went further, pushing back on specific claims that have circulated about AI threatening water supplies and driving up energy costs.
“AI is not a threat to the water supply,” Levin said. “We debunked that the other week, but they threw it out there.”
On energy costs, Levin was direct: “AI is not driving up energy costs. No, Democrats drive up energy costs.”
And on jobs — the biggest fear driving the anti-AI movement — Levin flipped the narrative entirely. “AI will create net increase in jobs, millions of jobs, blue collar, white collar, whatever you are, no collar,” he said.
He also noted that AI has noise abatement measures in place, that local and state governments retain control over zoning and taxing issues, and that antitrust and anti-competitive laws apply to AI just as they do to every other industry.
Why Levin’s Position Deserves Scrutiny, Not Just Applause
There’s a problem with waving away every concern about AI as hysteria, and it’s worth naming plainly.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei — a voice from inside the industry, not a critic outside it — has warned that AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs and push unemployment to somewhere between 10 and 20 percent within one to five years. That’s not a fringe projection from a congressional staffer trying to grab a headline. That’s the CEO of one of the largest AI companies in the world saying it out loud.
Levin has a long record of backing interventionist foreign policy and opposed Donald Trump during the 2024 Republican primary before coming around after Trump secured the nomination. He has also been among the louder voices defending rapid AI adoption. Those facts sit alongside each other, and readers can draw their own conclusions about what drives the enthusiasm.
The same Big Tech companies building these data centers spent years throttling conservative speech on COVID policy, questions about the 2020 election, and the events of January 6. These are not neutral actors suddenly dedicated to the public good. They are corporations with enormous economic and political interests in making sure the infrastructure for AI expansion gets built as fast as possible — with as little public resistance as possible.
And that resistance is real. In July 2026 alone, 142 protests against AI data centers took place across 42 states. A poll conducted in June found that only 14 percent of Americans said they would support a data center being built in their community to support AI projects. Those aren’t hysteria numbers. Those are communities that looked at what these facilities actually do to local electricity bills, water use, noise levels, and land values — and said no.
Levin told his audience to relax. The residents of Goodyear, Arizona, who watched a $14 billion data center project get proposed for their area, or the people of Peculiar, Missouri, who organized to stop a similar project and succeeded, were not hysterical. They were paying attention.
The Larger Stakes Behind the AI Debate
There’s a version of this argument that is completely legitimate. Government bureaucrats and politicians trying to impose top-down moratoriums on AI development, or using AI skepticism as a pretext to expand regulatory power, deserve pushback. Hard.
But there is a difference between opposing government overreach and telling working Americans to stop worrying about technology that the industry’s own leaders admit could hollow out the entry-level job market within a few years.
The Left’s interest in controlling AI is a serious threat. A left-wing political establishment with its hands on AI infrastructure could build social-credit-style systems that punish people for eating meat, using fossil fuels, or supporting the kinds of patriotic causes that the core of the American electorate cares about. In any future emergency that resembles the COVID era, that same infrastructure could serve as a tool for monitoring and controlling the population in ways that would make the lockdowns look modest.
That’s not a small concern. And it doesn’t go away just because Mark Levin says relax.
Levin pointed to the historical record of technology scares that turned out to be overblown. Fair enough — there’s a long list. But the people raising serious questions about who controls AI, who profits from the data centers, who bears the cost of higher electricity rates in rural red counties, and what happens to the workers whose jobs get automated out of existence are not the same crowd as the doomsday crowd. They’re asking the right questions.
And when a Fox News host who opposed Trump in the primary turns up as one of the loudest voices urging Americans not to worry about the technology being built by the same corporations that spent years silencing them — that’s worth at least a second look.
The concerns about AI are real. The concerns about who controls it are real. The concerns about what it does to local communities, electricity grids, and working-class employment are real.
“Relax, America” is not an argument. It’s a posture. And the American people deserve better than that from anyone claiming to speak for them.
Sources: Breitbart, “They’re Trying to Scare You: Mark Levin Dismisses AI, Data Center Scare,” September 2026; Wikipedia, “Opposition to AI Data Centers”