After the midterms, things are looking rocky for Elon Musk and data centers
THE SO WHAT
Federal and state politics are now a first-order constraint on hyperscale buildout—power, water, and land are about to get more regulated and more local. If your AI roadmap assumes cheap, frictionless U.S. data center expansion, you need a political and permitting risk map next to your capacity plan.
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