Fox News’ AI newsletter highlights how the rapid expansion of data centres is driving demand for construction and other manual jobs in the United States, while also intensifying debate over energy use, local opposition and privacy. It presents the growth of AI infrastructure as economically significant but accompanied by concerns about cyber security, surveillance and the effect of AI on employment.

The newsletter says firms need workers to build data centres, power systems and associated facilities, and notes that fewer than 30% of Americans support a data centre in their community. It also reports a warning from OpenAI and more than 100 companies that AI could soon enable more sophisticated attacks on critical infrastructure, alongside discussion of potential space-based solar power, AI assistant memory, licence-plate readers and US competition with China.