{"id":508464,"date":"2026-02-27T22:55:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T22:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/508464\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T22:55:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T22:55:22","slug":"american-data-centres-for-us-artificial-intelligence-expansion-push-maga-from-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/508464\/","title":{"rendered":"American data centres for US artificial intelligence expansion push MAGA from Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Miller<\/p>\n<p>Feb 23, 2026 \u2013 10.54am<\/p>\n<p>On a cold Tuesday evening this month, about 200 Missourians crammed into a Methodist church to share a message: the AI revolution embraced by Donald Trump\u2019s White House did not have their unqualified support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI voted for this administration and didn\u2019t really think about [AI] until it started to affect me,\u201d said Lisa Garrett, who lives beside the site of a rapidly greenlit $US6.6 billion ($9.3 billion), 162-hectare data centre development in the satellite city of Independence, just east of Kansas City.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"_137dbe642694dac0-source\">Financial Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Miller Feb 23, 2026 \u2013 10.54am On a cold Tuesday evening this month, about 200 Missourians crammed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-508464","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-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}