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A national poll finds voters rejecting local data centers 70 to 30 and preferring a slow buildout over beating China. Texas’s governor, who called his state the epicenter of AI development, now says the industry basically dug its own grave.

The projected result is thread lines — self-inflicted compute queues. Bread lines rationed calories; thread lines ration intelligence.

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