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'We're not for sale': Americans want to pump brakes on data centres

Voters in dozens of American cities approved restrictions or outright bans on data centres during the Nov 3 midterm elections, in one of the clearest signals that a groundswell of anger over the AI boom has cut across political divides.

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The ban passed in a ballot measure on Nov 3 and now jeopardises the construction of a data centre worth more than US$1bil (RM4.04bil) planned by Meta, even though the project had already been approved. — Pexels

NEW YORK : Voters in dozens of American cities approved restrictions or outright bans on data centres during the Nov 3 midterm elections, in one of the clearest signals that a groundswell of anger over the artificial intelligence (AI) boom has cut across political divides.

"Democrat, Republican, that didn't matter," said Alisha Lange, a farmer from Piqua, Ohio. "People want their town back."

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