Every U.S. state that bans data centers
THE SO WHAT
Over a dozen U.S. states moving to pause data center construction turns AI expansion into a permitting and politics problem, not just a capex one. If your roadmap assumes cheap, infinite cloud, start mapping where your providers can actually build—and how power and zoning constraints could hit your latency and cost assumptions.
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