Politics hits data centers, OpenAI falls behind Anthropic and now AI is too big to fail… quietly

Data centers, of all things, now look like they’re going to be a prime political issue in the midterm elections and beyond.

Really?

Really.

Even the GOP is worried that opposition to AI data centers could give Democrats a potent campaign issue.

It seems a little odd given that data centers are decades old, power […]

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