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Meta Explores International Growth for AI Infrastructure After Wave of Local US Bans
From marketbrief.now
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Meta will scout for new data center locations outside the U.S. after local midterm referendums backed moratoria and restrictions on domestic buildouts, with 43 of 44 such measures reportedly passing and the company reviewing its $1 billion proposed facility in Piqua, Ohio.
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- SUPPORT@bradrcarson“Data center moratoria (various flavors) went 43-1. All hyperscalers must now converge on Harwood, North Dakota, the one outlier.”x.com
- SUPPORT@jlippincott“The economy will likely tank. This is going to be painful.”x.com
- SUPPORT@davidshor“Voters sided against data centers in 40 of 41 ballot measures, with basically no correlation to how red a county was. Deep red OH voted about the same as CA.”x.com
- SUPPORT@kimmaicutler“Dario said we must pace the frontier but the only big red button voters have is the stop data centers button.”x.com
- SUPPORT@drewpavlou“Chinese psy-op campaign against data center construction will probably go down in history as one of the most successful psy-ops ever”x.com