US voters rejected AI data centres in 40 of 41 ballot measures
THE SO WHAT
Local permitting just became a primary constraint on AI scale — 40 of 41 anti–data center measures passing means power and land are now political, not just financial. If your roadmap assumes cheap, frictionless US compute, start mapping alternative regions and hybrid strategies.
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