AI’s $560B infrastructure bet is becoming a midterm liability
The AI buildout is running into a political constraint money cannot easily fix: only 14% of Democrats and 31% of Republicans say new data centers are good for America. As Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Oracle prepare to spend more than $560 billion on infrastructure this year, pro-AI groups have committed roughly $265 million to midterm races. Water use, power prices, and bypassed local opposition are turning data-center approvals into a bipartisan vulnerability.