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Data centre dissent: why American voters aren’t buying Trump’s China AI pitch

South China Morning Post / 04 November 2026 / 7h ago

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Strong voter backlash in the US midterm elections against AI infrastructure projects, including data centres, indicates that framing the domestic buildout as key to competing with China failed to convince Americans and underscores the need to address local concerns, according to analysts. “The argument that we need to build more data centres to win in AI against China no longer seems to have the k

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Data centre dissent: why American voters aren’t buying Trump’s China AI pitch

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