It’s Donald Trump Versus MAGA on Data Centers
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When political leadership backs data centers but the base pushes back, siting risk becomes as much about local sentiment as about grid and water. If you're planning large AI builds in the US, community politics now belongs in the same spreadsheet as megawatts and latency.
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