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AI Infrastructure Meets Democratic Friction: Permitting and Politics Become Binding Constraints

The capital and physical infrastructure required to sustain AI development — data centres, grid capacity, chip fabs — is increasingly subject to political, regulatory, and community constraints that technical and financial planning has systematically underweighted.

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  1. Voter backlash and political risk stall the AI infrastructure buildout

  2. AI Infrastructure Expansion Hits Political and Physical Constraints Simultaneously