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Does the Democratic midterm victory spell the end of US AI data centre boom?
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The sweeping midterm election victory by US Democrats has triggered warnings from analysts that an impending regulatory clampdown could derail the nation’s multi-trillion-dollar artificial intelligence data centre buildout. Wall Street forecasters slashed their projections for Big Tech infrastructur
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Does the Democratic midterm victory spell the end of US AI data centre boom?
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