BlackRock CEO warns US data center ban could trigger recession

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink warned that a U.S. ban on data centers could trigger a recession by stalling AI infrastructure growth, which would hit capital investment, job creation, and economic stability. The comment is a macro policy warning rather than a crypto-specific event, but AI data center demand has been a major driver of power and infrastructure narratives tied to bitcoin mining and crypto-adjacent compute plays. Traders would care mainly as a signal of potential regulatory hostility to large-scale compute buildouts, a theme that can weigh on sentiment around mining and AI-crypto tokens.