COUNTERWEIGHTS… "To prevent the abuse of power, power must, by the very arrangement of things, check power." When Montesquieu wrote these lines in “The Spirit of the Laws” in 1748, he was obviously not thinking of the S&P 500 or of data centres. On 3 November, American voters set this mechanism back in motion. By taking control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate, the Democrats now act as a counterweight to a Republican White House. The new political landscape is not particularly favourable to AI. Indeed, regulatory risks are on the rise and investigations into the sector’s major players are becoming a possibility. Furthermore, local restrictions on data centres will need to be monitored.
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