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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Hugo Lowell

Trump’s AI infrastructure plans could face delays due to Texas Republicans

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Donald Trump gives remarks on AI Infrastructure as Larry Ellison of Oracle, Junichi Miyakawa of SoftBank Corp and Sam Altman of OpenAI look on in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington DC on 21 January 2025. Photograph: Abaca/Rex/Shutterstock

Donald Trump’s plans to expand infrastructure to produce artificial intelligence in the US could face years of delays with the Republican-controlled Texas statehouse poised to pass legislation that imposes regulatory hurdles on data centers.

The Trump administration earlier this year announced that a joint venture called Stargate would construct a total of 20 data centers to provide computing power for AI as part of an effort to help the US compete against China for leadership of the technology and spur investors to pursue AI projects.

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