American voters’ aversion to data centres and suspicion of AI’s potential to destroy jobs played a major role in the Republican Party’s losses in the US midterms.
Then the tech-heavy US stock market tumbled as investors became concerned that a Democrat-controlled congress might be less accommodating of hyperscalers. Recovery has been shaky, and the resignation of NVIDIA’s CEO Jensen Huang following his affair with an alleged Chinese spy is likely to make things worse.
Bronwen Maddox is joined by David Lubin from our Global Economy and Finance Programme, and Alex Krasodomski, director of our Digital Society Programme.
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