A growing number of Republican candidates are distancing themselves from President Trump’s support for large artificial-intelligence data centers as opposition to the facilities becomes an increasingly important political issue ahead of the midterm elections. Fox News reports that polling shows strong resistance among voters to new data-center construction in their own communities.

President Trump has strongly promoted the expansion of data centers needed to power the rapidly growing AI industry, arguing that communities embracing the facilities could benefit from increased investment, jobs and tax revenue.

But Republican strategists are warning that the issue has become politically dangerous in some areas. A Fox News poll found that 70% of voters want to slow the construction of new data centers in their communities.

That opposition has prompted some Republican candidates appearing on November’s ballot to put distance between themselves and the president’s position, marking a notable shift for a party that had broadly supported rapid AI expansion.

The political dispute comes as technology companies build increasingly massive computing facilities across the country to meet the enormous power and infrastructure demands created by generative artificial intelligence.

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