AI Billionaire-Backed Group Launches Pro-Data Center Ad Blitz
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Data centers just became a retail politics issue—if you're planning large-scale AI buildout, community sentiment and permitting risk now sit alongside power and chips in the critical path. Early signal that operators will need public affairs and local coalition strategy, not just better PUE, to get capacity online.
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