Donald Trump has backed expanding AI across the US, pledging to cooperate with states eager to draw in funding for what he calls Super Intelligence. In a Friday Truth Social post, he said turning that money away would be a blunder.
Days earlier, voters in several states backed local limits on data centres, with nearly two dozen of 41 ballot measures across 10 states looking set to pass on early returns. In Texas, a Democrat who campaigned on a moratorium on new data centres beat Governor Greg Abbott.
Trump posted on Truth Social on Thursday that votes for independent Daniel J. Sullivan Jr. should go to Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan, declaring the Alaska Senate race over.
The independent has been out of view since before Election Day, and Trump suggested he might have been kidnapped by Democratic lawyers. The Justice Department is investigating claims that people tried to recruit him to run against the incumbent, though no one has been charged.
Alaska officials challenged his candidacy, but state courts let him stay on the ballot.