Voters' midterm backlash against AI has cooled Wall Street's runaway enthusiasm for the technology's massive data centre expansion.
Last week's US election results turbo-charged a growing rethink about artificial intelligence, with dozens of measures backing limits on datacentre expansion winning voter approval. The backlash has put fresh focus on soaring costs and corporate spending tied to AI, raising the question of whether the market's AI boom can survive its own physical infrastructure.