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":2,"featured_media":416633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,96131,277,45,168153,49,48,52149,168163,168152,168162,112148,3525,125498,9564,168154,14022,174975,173868,16745,168151,4717,3234,161709,168161,96138,2841,10443,106304,281,15850,15469,96136,995,161707,7074,26205,61,14237,174976,174977],"class_list":["post-416632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence-technologies","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-business","tag-business-consumer-services","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-capital","tag-colocation-services","tag-computer-services","tag-consumer-services","tag-consumer-affairs","tag-corporate","tag-corporate-industrial-news","tag-data-centers","tag-data-centers-colocation-services","tag-data-services","tag-electric-power-transmission","tag-electric-utilities","tag-electricity","tag-electricity-gas-utilities","tag-energy","tag-funding","tag-funding-capital","tag-gas-utilities","tag-gcapi","tag-general-news","tag-government-policy","tag-industrial-news","tag-meta","tag-meta-platforms-inc","tag-political","tag-political-general-news","tag-regulation","tag-regulation-government-policy","tag-services","tag-synd","tag-technology","tag-utilities","tag-williams-cos","tag-wmb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}