Part of the issue is simply that the facilities are so huge and tend not to provide many jobs once construction is complete. Protests spread, and, according to Data Center Watch, at least seventy-five data-center projects, whose costs totalled roughly a hundred and thirty billion dollars, were stopped in the first three months of 2026 alone. But this summer some politicians have detected a deeper unease, and have begun asking more basic questions about whether A.I. But Musk and Sacks have become less visible in Washington, and although A.I. has been the major business and social topic of the past year and a half, the President has barely addressed it.