Hong KongSouth Korea halted trading Friday after the Kospi fell 8%.
Taiwan’s benchmark lost 12.2% this week, London Stock Exchange Group data show, and TSMC fell as much as 8.5%.
Cleanview data show 40% of pending US data-centre capacity sits in states whose new Democratic governors promised pauses.
Most Asian indexes remain above year-ago levels, with the Kospi up 25% and the Nikkei 13%.
Texas governor-elect Gina Hinojosa has promised a moratorium on new data-centre construction in the largest US market.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 250+ reports worldwide
- Aol
- emphasizes that the Kospi trading halt and Samsung/SK Hynix plunges show the rout hitting memory suppliers directly, not just a generic tech sell-off
- BBC
- Hindustan Times leans critical
- frames the rout as a political-risk story, tying Democratic midterm wins to fears of data-center construction curbs and quoting Trump's "Dumocrats" post
- Al Jazeera Online
- frames the selloff as driven by Democratic regulatory threat to Trump's AI boom, citing Al Jazeera's Beijing correspondent on Asian markets
Sources: Aol, BBC, Hindustan Times, Al Jazeera Online