When it comes to data centres, the Trump administration has been urging AI companies to “build, baby, build”. But the White House’s agenda is facing resistance from an unlikely place: the very states that won Donald Trump the presidency.

The FT’s Joe Miller went on a road trip to Missouri to talk to some AI sceptics. 

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