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Election pundits debating why so many tech titans are suddenly becoming Trumpers ahead of the vote Tuesday might look no further than the growing wars over power for AI data centers.

With Google GOOGL 0.00%↑, Amazon $AMZN, Salesforce CRM 0.00%↑, Microsoft MSFT 0.00%↑, and Facebook META 0.00%↑, and others, all scouring the globe for sources of new energy to power their growing AI universes, how a Trump or Harris administration might impact their quests from a regulatory standpoint is a bigger issue than it’s gotten credit for.