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At least 20 governor candidates have promised data center moratoriums, according to Multistate research cited by Wired. For teams counting on capacity that has not been built yet, where a site goes and who pays for its power are now campaign questions in several states.
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The build is now the largest driver of U.S. private investment growth, and 71% of Americans polled want none of it nearby, which makes entitlement risk rather than capital the thing infrastructure investors have to price.
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Trump is telling communities that refusing data centers will leave them poor, while Abbott and Pillen have paused approvals in their own states. That gap is where the schedule risk on a project now sits.
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A New York Times poll puts 47 percent of Republicans against data center construction. The party's own strategists are telling candidates to keep their distance from the projects the president keeps defending.
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Ken Paxton and James Talarico disagree about tax breaks and local control, but they ask for the same thing on water. That moves cooling design out of the campaign column and into the siting spec.
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Austan Goolsbee told Fortune the AI buildout is bidding construction workers and HVAC away from other firms, and that a sector rebalance is "not far" from becoming aggregate overheating, which is the Fed's business.
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The blocking is happening at a level federal permitting reform cannot reach, which is why the White House is now arguing with voters rather than regulators, and why on-site generation is becoming the price of consent.
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Opposition to compute buildouts now polls at three-quarters of Americans and has become the central charge in Senate races contested by both parties, which makes permitting, rather than megawatts or capital, the variable that moves a capacity schedule.
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Council rooms are full, Ohio is going badly for AI firms, and the industry's answer is a hiring requisition. Foxconn's 1,100 jobs explain why the pitch no longer clears.
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