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01 Sep 2026, 6:14 AM	TechCrunch	2.0	A group funded by Andreessen, Horowitz, and Brockman plans data center ads to sway midterms A pro-AI super PAC called Build American AI, affiliated with Leading the Future (LTF), plans to spend millions on ads in Kansas, Ohio, and Wisconsin promoting data centers ahead of US midterms. LTF was launched with over $50 million from Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, and OpenAI President Greg Brockman, and OpenAI has publicly distanced itself from the group, condemning tactics like astroturfing. Why: This is US political advocacy with no direct impact on Malaysian or SEA builders' decisions. The only tangential signal is that AI infrastructure (data centers) is becoming politically contested in the US, which could indirectly affect cloud pricing or capacity availability for builders relying on US-hosted GPU compute, but no actionable change is warranted from this article alone. ai-policy data-centers us-politics super-pac

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01 Sep 2026, 6:14 AM

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A group funded by Andreessen, Horowitz, and Brockman plans data center ads to sway midterms

A pro-AI super PAC called Build American AI, affiliated with Leading the Future (LTF), plans to spend millions on ads in Kansas, Ohio, and Wisconsin promoting data centers ahead of US midterms. LTF was launched with over $50 million from Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, and OpenAI President Greg Brockman, and OpenAI has publicly distanced itself from the group, condemning tactics like astroturfing.

Why: This is US political advocacy with no direct impact on Malaysian or SEA builders' decisions. The only tangential signal is that AI infrastructure (data centers) is becoming politically contested in the US, which could indirectly affect cloud pricing or capacity availability for builders relying on US-hosted GPU compute, but no actionable change is warranted from this article alone.