Could the US midterms put a pin in the AI bubble?

While the Trump administration has been all-in on AI, or "super intelligence" as the president likes to call it, many leading Democrats have tapped into grassroots concerns about the expansion of data centres and their impact on local communities.

These were largely focused on the facilities' high consumption of water and electricity, which many feared would push up their household bills – as well as the noise, use of land, and general disruption associated with them.

A Gallup poll published in May showed 71% of Americans would oppose the building of a data centre in their community. The figure for a nuclear power station was 53%.