In the polarized world of American politics, there's one subject at least finding common ground among Republicans and Democrats: Data farms.
More than 5,200 of these massive facilities — hubs for digital infrastructure that process data needed to run websites, apps, and much of the rest of the Internet — are spread across America, from large cities to tiny towns. And tech giants like OpenAI, Oracle, Google, and Amazon are racing to build more farms to fuel their computation-hungry AI research and development.