Europe's data center industry is pressuring policymakers to deprioritize climate targets in favor of AI infrastructure expansion, arguing that only gas-fired power plants can reliably meet immediate demand. The framing creates a false binary — nuclear expansion is already underway across the UK, Belgium, Italy, and Switzerland specifically to power AI while decarbonizing, making the 'forced choice' narrative incomplete. What the data center lobby isn't saying: grid reliability and decarbonization are increasingly compatible, and the real cost of their demand is passing infrastructure risk onto governments while they extract the profit.