Data center backlash turns political, a new risk for Meta's AI buildout

After last week's power reprieve, the fight over AI data centers that Meta Platforms (META) is racing to build has gone political. On October 13 Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon warned of local volatility heading into the midterms. In Nevada, where Washington owns about 80% of the land, the governor's race now turns on whether these sites belong on federal ground.