Published: Jan. 17, 2026 at 9:23\u202fa.m. ET<\/p>\n
In the race to build artificial intelligence, Big Tech companies have spent record-breaking amounts of money on building data centers. Now, they might end up spending even more as they face unprecedented federal intervention along the way.<\/p>\n
To compete in the AI revolution, Big Tech companies are focused on building out as much AI data-center infrastructure as possible. But now hyperscalers like Microsoft MSFT<\/a>, Meta Platforms META<\/a>, Google GOOGL<\/a> GOOG<\/a> and Amazon.com AMZN<\/a>, are facing major obstacles, including ordinary Americans fed up with the rising cost of electricity and a president increasingly focused on affordability in the months leading up to the midterms.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published: Jan. 17, 2026 at 9:23\u202fa.m. ET In the race to build artificial intelligence, Big Tech companies have…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":524491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[691,738,218075,64,233108,7553,233115,233107,332,233114,19451,190830,8296,233109,53940,233106,228313,24071,233105,5495,1258,233110,233113,190234,57,86,190843,340,3747,3234,190263,3229,190828,5677,5660,158,67,132,68,17084,233111,233112],"class_list":{"0":"post-524490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence-technologies","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-business-consumer-services","13":"tag-capital","14":"tag-colocation-services","15":"tag-computer-services","16":"tag-consumer-affairs","17":"tag-consumer-services","18":"tag-corporate","19":"tag-corporate-industrial-news","20":"tag-data-centers","21":"tag-data-centers-colocation-services","22":"tag-data-services","23":"tag-electric-power-transmission","24":"tag-electric-utilities","25":"tag-electricity","26":"tag-electricity-gas-utilities","27":"tag-energy","28":"tag-funding","29":"tag-funding-capital","30":"tag-gas-utilities","31":"tag-gcapi","32":"tag-general-news","33":"tag-government-policy","34":"tag-industrial-news","35":"tag-meta","36":"tag-meta-platforms-inc","37":"tag-political","38":"tag-political-general-news","39":"tag-regulation","40":"tag-regulation-government-policy","41":"tag-services","42":"tag-synd","43":"tag-technology","44":"tag-united-states","45":"tag-unitedstates","46":"tag-us","47":"tag-utilities","48":"tag-williams-cos","49":"tag-wmb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}