Geopolitics
The Great American Unbuilding: How Domestic Discord and Foreign Sabotage are Forfeiting the AI Future
The United States is facing a surge of grassroots and political opposition to new data center construction, driven by legitimate local concerns and amplified by foreign adversaries, which threatens to cripple its infrastructure buildout and cede leadership in the AI race to competitors like China. This is a catastrophic self-inflicted wound, a failure of vision and political will, where short-sighted domestic squabbles and external manipulation are poised to surrender the future to rising powers who understand that national progress demands national sacrifice and unified purpose.
