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ofrioting  \nA burnt-out car in front of the statue ofMarianne in Paris's Place de la Répub-lique yesterday,in the aftermathof dev-astating riotsthat wreaked havocin cit-ies across France.  \nLarge,peaceful demonstrationsagainst the cost ofliving and students'complaints about the education systemwere hijacked by thousands of masked,black-clad rioters.Stores were ran-sacked and businesses and publicbuild-ingswere torchedinwhatofficials called\"unprecedented\"levels ofviolence.  \nThe disorder came six months beforea crucial presidential election and asEmmanuel Macron'sgovernment istry-ing to pass a budget fo next year in theface of bond market jitters aboutFrance's ability to rein in its deficit.Macron said he had ordered a reviewinto whether there had been intelli-gence or policing failures.  \n▶St Petersburgunde fire  \nFrance reels page4  \nInvestor anxiety and public backlashthreaten to scupper$10tn AIboom  \n▶Airlines feel price pain  \nAnthropichagling push  \n◆35%of data centre plans 'credible’●Bondjittersjeopardise financeoSpending props upUS economy  \nboom,these ambitious data centreplans are running into reality.Atleast47large projects have been delayed,with-drawn orblockedthis year,accordingtoCracks are appearingin America'sdebt-datafrom RegLayer,a regulatory intlli-laden $10tn AI infrastructure boom asgence company,which described it as aproject delays,a public backlash and\"conservative estimate\".shaky investor confidence bringa reck-Analysts at Bernstein this monthesti-oning for the data centre build-outmated only about 35 per cent of theunderpinning the USeconomy.planned US data centre pipeline wasArush for computing powerin recentcredible.More than 1,000 communitiesyears created what multiple peopleacross the US have tried to introduceinvolved characterised as a“Wild West”               market.They said money had floodedinto brand-newcompanies and due dili-Some 47bigprojects havegence for new projects has been expe-dited,with AI labs such as Anthropicbeen delayed,blocked orand OpenAI accepting higher short-withdrawn this year-at aterm coststomove as fast as possible.  \nbecome increasinglyificult while util-ity regulators have been refusing gridconnections unless projects can supplytheir own power,according to data cen-treexecutives.  \nOpenAI's decision to delay its initialpublic offering further dampingsentiment.  \nmoratoria or other restrictions on AIinfrastructure this year,according toFTresearch.  \nConstruction delays also raise theprospect thattenants,typically BigTechcompanies or AI labs,could invokeclauses allowing them to walk away ifprojects arenot delivered ontime.  \nAIlabs and Big Tech groupshavecom-mitted to spend trillions of dollarsoverthe coming years on computing capac-ity.But thoseplans can only be realisedifa group of recently launched “neo-cloud”data centre providers manage tofinance the unprecedented construc-tioneffort.  \nTrump backs Netanyahu  \nLast week investors began repricingrisks:debt tied 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