The Trump administration is weighing a new round of sweeping tariffs on semiconductors, eight people familiar with discussions told POLITICO — despite warnings from tech companies that the move could doom U.S. hopes of dominating artificial intelligence.
One tariff approach under consideration would dramatically expand the number of tech products subject to the duties, hitting not just chips but potentially many of the goods made with them, such as laptops, gaming consoles or the servers that fill data centers, the people said. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick favors a structure that would tie foreign companies’ relief from the tariffs to investment in U.S. chip manufacturing to juice more domestic production, said four of the people.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/27/data-centers-chips-tariffs-threat-01050957
