Americans voted against datacenters. Datacenters may still win.
The Waters Wrap: The US midterms could spell trouble for datacenters but only if Dems put the screws to Big Tech, too, Reb writes.
This month’s midterm elections brought a stunning upset for Republicans in the US, who lost seven seats in the Senate and 41 seats in the House of Representatives, and even lost governor strongholds in deep-red states.
But it wasn’t just Republicans that were rebuffed by the American people. Voters in dozens of states cast ballots against datacenters and, by extension, artificial intelligence.
According to data from Ballotpedia, a nonpartisan, online political encyclopedia, there were at least 50
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