American technology firms are lobbying for the Trump government to narrow the tax on chips

On 27 August, according to Politico, science and technology enterprises have launched intensive lobbying to persuade the Trump Government to reduce the expected size of the chip tariffs and bring them closer to the tariff programme announced earlier this year. The policy provides extensive exemptions for data centres and other domestic uses, thus limiting the impact of tariffs. The lobby argued that tariffs would make it more difficult for United States companies to obtain the number of semiconductors needed for artificial intelligence to flourish, thereby slowing the expansion of data centres. At this time, the United States technology giants are investing in artificial intelligence on a record scale, investing hundreds of billions of dollars in large data centre parks and buying expensive, sophisticated chips to run these data centres. "It's probably the dumbest way I can think of to pursue American AI's dominance." According to a science and technology officer in a large industry association. He served in the first Government of Trump. "It's like kicking your leg on the starting line."