Peter Navarro Wants To Know: “Why are Americans Paying For AI In India?”

India-West News Desk

WASHINGTON, DC – “Why are Americans paying for AI in India? ChatGPT is operating on U.S. soil, using American electricity and servicing large users… in India and China and elsewhere around the world. So, that’s another issue that’s got to be dealt with.”

With these pointed remarks, U.S. trade adviser Peter Navarro launched a fresh offensive against India, this time framing American artificial intelligence dominance as a trade-related resource drain.

Speaking with former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon on “Real America’s Voice,” Navarro argued that while platforms like OpenAI’s ChatGPT are engineered and powered within the United States, the massive consumption of domestic electricity required to service international users, specifically those in India, represents an economic imbalance that the administration intends to address.

This latest critique emerges against a backdrop of trade friction between Washington and New Delhi and talks that sputtered along.

Navarro’s rhetoric continues to highlight a “reciprocal” trade philosophy that views digital exports through the same protectionist lens as physical goods.