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In a BBC News analysis of whether a backlash against data centers helped shape the midterm elections, Columbia Business School research is cited showing that U.S. AI infrastructure investment is now larger, as a share of the economy, than spending on new railways at the height of the 19th-century boom. That comparison comes from work by professor Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh. The story reports that 56% of surveyed voters called data centers a “crucial or major” factor in their vote, and that several states leading the AI build-out elected officials who favor tighter rules on new facilities.
