The US is currently experiencing a rapid datacenter buildout but also a lot of anti-datacenter sentiment. Will the buildout be slowed substantially by mid-2029 for political reasons, compared to 2026?

I plan to resolve this question primarily by giving the resolution text to 2-3 frontier LLMs and asking them to resolve it. If the LLMs disagree, I'll use my personal judgment to resolve it, with a bias towards N/A.

Ways this question might resolve YES:

• There's a federal ban on datacenters in the US

• Most US states have passed datacenter moratoria, and the remaining ones aren't suitable for datacenters, such that few new hyperscale datacenters are built due to this

• The US hasn't banned datacenters, but building datacenters in the US has become impractical or much more expensive, e.g. because the permitting for energy production has become much harder

• Due to regulatory issues, the US has clearly become less attractive for building new hyperscale datacenters than other countries like Australia

Ways this question might resolve NO:

• The current situation essentially continues

• Nobody wants to build more datacenters due to an economic slowdown, but it would in theory still be as easy as before if the economic incentives were in place

• AI training and inference are slowed/disincentivized, which reduces the economic incentive to build datacenters, but building datacenters would still be as easy as in 2026