A New York Times poll puts 47 percent of Republicans against data center construction. The party's own strategists are telling candidates to keep their distance from the projects the president keeps defending.
Reality
- Evidence48
- Adoption58
- Hype gap+14
- Incentives70
- Confidence52
Flock says its license plate readers operate in 6,000 communities in every state but Alaska, and candidates in both parties are now pledging bans, funding pauses and warrant rules, which turns a signed municipal contract into an election-year liability.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption70
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives82
- Confidence48
Republicans who cheered the AI buildout are running on "guardrails" and tax-break repeal. For anyone underwriting capex against state abatements, the discount rate just moved.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption38
- Hype gap+24
- Incentives68
- Confidence48
Both candidates would keep approving hyperscale campuses. The contest is over who gets to say no, which moves siting risk from utility contracts to local politics.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption38
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives74
- Confidence45
A CNBC and Generation Lab survey of 1,088 Americans aged 18 to 34 puts distrust of Palantir's Alex Karp at 81% and Anthropic's Dario Amodei at 76%. The best-liked AI chief executive still loses 65-35.
Reality
- Evidence44
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives34
- Confidence42