The article suggests a growing division between Donald Trump's populist movement and its Silicon Valley supporters. This split is attributed to the tech sector's focus on AI displacing workers and its increasing influence on infrastructure, leading to rising costs.

<p>Donald Trump has managed to fuse a backward-looking populist movement with a Silicon Valley vanguard whose guiding assumption is that AI will render a large share of ordinary people economically redundant. But with the tech billionaires now rewiring America's electricity grid and driving up costs, a split seems inevitable.</p>