America’s AI giants have a problem. The likes of Google, Meta and Microsoft want to spend $3trn on data centres over the next four years. But a backlash among Americans, who don’t want sheds full of chips humming away near their backyards, has made it difficult to find a spot to build them. Will that slow the AI race?
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