The Democratic Party’s sweeping midterm election victory and takeover of both houses of Congress could slow down the pace of artificial intelligence development in the US, with implications for both the global AI trade and the technology rivalry between Washington and Beijing, analysts said.
The assessment comes as concerns about AI and the data centres that power it proved to be a contributing factor in the backlash against the Republican Party and US President Donald Trump, a vocal supporter of the tech industry.
Nationwide exit polls conducted by NBC News showed that 56 per cent of voters considered AI and data centres a “crucial” or “major” factor in their congressional vote, with about 64 per cent of that group being Democrats.
