Americans are the least in favor of building new artificial intelligence data centers compared to other major countries, according to a new Public First poll.
The survey found that U.S. voters were the least likely among 15 large countries—including Japan, Canada, Brazil and the U.K.— to support building new AI data centers, Financial Times (FT) reported on Thursday. Twenty-six percent of Americans surveyed backed increased construction of AI data centers, while about 30% of British, German and French voters supported such initiatives.
Support for data centers was highest in Nigeria and India, where 74% and 65% of those surveyed supported more construction, the poll shows.
“Our research shows America, the home of Silicon Valley and the majority of the biggest tech companies, has the population least in [favor] of the very infrastructure needed to support that sector,” Public First Head of Opinion Research Seb Wride said in a statement.