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America’s AI election

Data-center backlash is reshaping electoral politics — and history suggests regulation always lags the technology.

Reporting by Financial Times Technology 1 min brief
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Why it matters

As AI infrastructure (data centers) becomes politically polarizing, the story examines how public opposition to compute buildout is influencing policy and elections — a societal reaction to AI's physical footprint, not a technological development itself.

The key facts

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  1. Data-center opposition emerging as political issue across US states

  2. Historical pattern: regulation of new technologies follows public backlash, not precedes it

  3. Infrastructure politics reshaping electoral landscape

  4. Jill Lepore historical analysis framing

  5. Jill Lepore op-ed/analysis on data-center opposition

  6. Opposition framed as reshaping politics

  7. Historical precedent being invoked for technology regulation

  8. Political and electoral dimension emerging around AI infrastructure siting

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Publisher excerpt: Jill Lepore on how opposition to data centres is reshaping politics — and what history tells us about regulating new technologies
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