President Donald Trump’s push to take hold of mineral-rich Greenland is fueling industry buzz about the Danish territory emerging as a possible hub for energy-hungry data centers.
“It literally is the best place in the world for data centers,” Drew Horn, a former Trump official who focused on Greenland and is now in the private sector, said in a recent interview with Fox News. “It’s just a huge success story waiting to happen.”
“I really think that we have just tons of investment that’s going to build it up in the next few years,” Horn said.
Trump has ratcheted up his rhetoric around taking Greenland, telling reporters on Air Force One last weekend that “I think we’re going to have it” when asked about Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s insistence that the island is not for sale. “I don’t know, really, what claim Denmark has to it. But it would be a very unfriendly act if they didn’t allow that to happen,” said Trump. “Because it’s for protection of the free world. It’s not for us. It’s for the free world.”
