Americans are voting down data centers. Europeans are worried they’re losing the AI race

You can't talk about these midterms without talking about AI, obviously. The data center conversation in the US is never ending. And for some context, 41 data center related ballot measures were up for a vote in the elections last week in 10 states. And voters rejected infrastructure build-outs 40 out of 41 times. So a pretty clear message there. What's the conversation about data centres like Kamal in Europe right now? Maybe we start in the UK and then speak more broadly. Certainly much less aggressive than it is in America. It hasn't been the tense conversations that you've been having over there. There is a debate around resources. There is a debate around where these data centres might be put. But not to the extent of in America, the protests that we've seen in America. In Europe the polling shows that the public are not as anti- artificial intelligence development as is happening in America. Why is that? I think a couple of reasons. First of all there's much more concern here that Europe is going to be left behind. We're not going to innovate quickly enough. In a way, you've already gone to the next chapter of AI development, that you know you have the people who can seize the future and show the great opportunities of artificial intelligence. You've always moved on to chapter two, which is, and here are the worries and data centers is one of them. In Europe, we're still worrying, have we got the innovators? Are we actually going to make as much out of the AI revolution as America? Looks like it's going to be able to make and it's already making as China looks like it's going to be able to make and it's already making.