Nearly $200 Billion Worth of Data Center Projects Have Been Blocked or Delayed This Year
THE SO WHAT
Local resistance is now a hard constraint on AI buildout, not a rounding error in the permitting timeline. If your AI roadmap assumes frictionless U.S. data center expansion, you need a parallel plan for siting, incentives, and potentially non-U.S. capacity.
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