US voters rejected data centers 44 of 45 times; China builds a million-chip AI campus
ccerrato147 · x · 2026-11-15
A thread arguing US and China are diverging on AI infrastructure: American communities voted down data center projects in 44 of 45 referendums, while China is erecting rows of data centers on Inner Mongolian grasslands—one designed for a million AI chips. The author asks whether this marks the beginning of the end of America's AI lead.
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