Voters pass dozens of data-center ballot measures nationwide
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On Election Day, data centers appeared on the ballot in roughly 40 localities across 13 states as proposed bans, project-specific votes, and recalls of pro-data-center politicians; nearly all restrictive measures passed.
“data centers are on the ballot in ~40 localities across 13 states, including proposed bans, votes on specific projects, and recalls of pro-data center politicians”
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Abdul El-Sayed Michigan senator-electAmerican voters Electorate across ~40 localities in 13 states
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7 outlets Data centers lost the midterms
first by The Verge, 3d ago · also Daily Caller, MarketWatch, CBS News, TechRepublic, TechCrunch, Heatmap News
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- Data Centers Have Brutal Election Night Daily Caller · 3d ago
- The midterm election results are redrawing the map for AI data centers MarketWatch · 3d ago
- Midterm election results will slow data center buildout, experts predict CBS News · 3d ago
- AI Data Center Boom Faces Backlash After US Election Results TechRepublic · 3d ago
- After the midterms, a bigger clash over data centers could be coming TechCrunch · 3d ago
- If This Was a Data Center Election, Data Centers Lost Heatmap News · 3d ago
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first by Semafor, 3d ago · also 404 Media, NY Post, New York Post, Capital B, HN Best, HN Frontpage
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first by Forbes, 7d ago · also Bloomberg Markets, The Detroit News, Bloomberg, Tom's Guide
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- Data Center Restrictions Make the Ballot in Dozens of US Cities Bloomberg Markets · 6d ago
- Here’s Where Data Center Bans Are On The Ballot (Full List) Forbes Business · 6d ago
- AI data centers are on the ballot in 10 states tomorrow — here's what's at stake for your community Tom's Guide · 5d ago
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first by Wired, 3d ago · also Washington Post, StrictlyVC, Semafor
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- Voters reject data centers across the country as the AI backlash grows Washington Post · 3d ago
- Voters Say No to Data Centers StrictlyVC · 3d ago
- Voters' data center rebuke hits some tech companies harder than others Semafor · 3d ago
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first by Ballotpedia, 4d ago · also Tom's Hardware, Fast Company
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first by Daily Wire, 3d ago · also Fortune
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- Americans hate data centers. Tech needs them Fortune · 3d ago
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first by The Guardian, 2d ago · also Guardian
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first by Washington Examiner, 3d ago · also CNBC
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first by Route Fifty, 3d ago · also Quartz
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- Voters rejected AI data centers across America Quartz · 3d ago
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first by Fierce Network, 4d ago · also Business Insider
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- Data centers got a slap in the face at the ballot box. These key votes show how. Business Insider · 4d ago
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first by The Washington Post, 5d ago · also Forbes
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first by CBS News, 2d ago
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first by Ballotpedia News, 2d ago
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first by Mother Jones, 3d ago
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1 outlet AI on the Ballot
first by Stratechery, 3d ago
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first by New Republic, 3d ago
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first by Rolling Stone, 4d ago
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first by NBC News, 4d ago
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first by NY Post, 8d ago
What people said 24 voices · best of 133 · verbatim
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The AI Bubble is already deflating. When it pops, we will have a serious recession even if a Dem. Congress repeals the tariffs and passes plenty of job-creating bills.
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At a Brooklyn midterm party five days before Election Day, every conversation, from a council member’s fireside chat to a debate about the Democratic Party, kept circling back to AI and data centers. https:// techcrunch.com/2026/10/31/data -centers-are-now-a-midterm-issue-even-in-brooklyn/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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Its insanely over valued and the government inflating and propping it up is leading to a much harder fall. AI intrinsically doesnt make a profit and doesnt do 90% of what the tech Bros. Promise. Hallucination and tech just getting plain wrong or biased answers is a huge issue and the current solution is "give it more data" This is a huge flaw…
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On the Eve of the Midterms, AI Data Centers Have Become a Bipartisan Headache https://www. cnet.com/news/politics/polls-e xperts-ai-data-centers-midterm-voting/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Posted into Top Stories in Tech @ top-stories-in-tech-thenewsdesk
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I didn't overlook it. Their explanation of the context made it clear that they hadn't actually watched the full video, or made an attempt to try and see another perspective. Studies show that debating someone's ideas or beliefs elicit the same fight of flight response as an actual physical threat, and sometimes it's even stronger than a physical…
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Trump's AI push faces a local ballot test https://www. politico.com/news/2026/10/31/t rumps-data-centers-ballots-midterm-test-01142170?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Posted into Politics @ politics-politico
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Yes M$$A has done an about face with tariffs, but the data still stands. Again, Republican policies favor the wealthy and the wealthy hoard and stagnate our consumer economy. The tariff refunds were given to the corporations - not the consumers who paid them, so really just more of the same wealth hoarding. And Democrats have been consistent with…
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Nepotism and minimizing risks are not socialism IMO. I agree those companies should go under if they fail, like Intel, but it was propped up because the admin wanted a TSMC alternative that's not at risk of being disrupted by China. When banks were going under during the GFC and some of them got bailed out for the stability of the economy, that…
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Cut and paste from google AI “accomplishments of Jerry Brown” due to laziness: Deficit and Rainy-Day Fund: Inherited a massive multi-billion-dollar state budget deficit, eliminated it, and led the campaign to create the state’s constitutional Rainy-Day Fund while turning a $16 billion shortfall into a multi-billion-dollar surplus. Climate and…
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They would've done this differently if they really cared, though. Currently, all the LLMs that exist are here because of Google's research, and they didn't patent it but decided to publicly share their technology with the world. The company just has so much cash coming in every year that they have no idea how to spend it. (That's money on the…
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Because it's best to try and watch the full context of something without any preconceived notions lingering in your mind. That way you have the ability to see more than just one point of view. It's like if we went on a walk, but before you walk I said "pay attention to the red flowers on this trail, they're beautiful." You might walk the whole…
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Idk why Republicans are still a thing. The basic strategy is GOP tank the economy, promote cultural unrest, give tax breaks to the ultra wealthy, and currently grift anything that they can. They don't even stand for any environmental issues, as Nixon did. Then Dems get elected and spend their term trying to correct for the damage done. GOP blame…
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There is someone working on every problem. If the problem is worth solving, someone is working on it. And the people working on the open problems haven't solved them. If they had solved them, the problems would have been solved instead of open. In this year, literally hundreds of the biggest open problems, problems that people have worked on for…
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Multiple tankers still getting blown up every day. Getting oil out of the strait has gone from $3 bbl to $45 bbl. Costs of moving oil worldwide is crunched due to a severe tanker shortage that just keeps getting worse by the day. Iranians are getting oil out still through overland routes into Pakistan and over the Caspian into Russia it just…
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I don’t know how I missed this the first time… It hurt to read that your “only mistake” was replying to me. In that same comment, you invited me to ask meaningful questions if I was “serious.” And when I did, you thanked me for asking “actual questions” as if I’d finally started listening. I was interested in what you had to say, and I took you…
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Good for the corporate economy, maybe. Bad for the regular person. Every Republican majority tends to raise economic returns for corporations and proportionately lower the net worth of individual Americans who weren’t already extremely wealthy. Funny how that keeps happening. Edit: proportionally** not proportionately. Direct correlation between…
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Isn’t that a bit hyperbolic? Has there really been a wipeout of sorts? Some people sold their shares, others bought them, right? Apart from that, in the overall history of these stocks, isn’t this drop still just a minor dent? I mean, Intel looks kind of bad, but we are still above the longtime baseline. Most of these shot way up this year…
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I understand the reason for explaining it in this manner, but conceptually I struggle to wrap my head around it. Can someone who gets it better help me ? Is it a trillion dollars or imaginary/digital only money that was wiped out among people who continue to hold a non physical thing, or was it that a trillion dollars was transfered(not lost) from…
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Holy shit this is stupid. There are people who literally spend 80 hours a week figuring out if it's worthwhile to buy or sell based on what they reasonably expect the stock value to be in the future. They go to school for this, they give up their entire personal life for this, and they are primarily compensated on whether or not they actually do…
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Yeah thats not what happened at all, if you do even a time bit of research you will find all the "break throughs" are legit stolen work that was actively getting worked on and when they went to check their work with AI the companies were trying to race to claim it was done by AI. So when has checking someones work count as creating something…
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Bro are you going off the polls that were literally confirmed to be “made up”? Cause there is no “likely” winner of midterms as of now lol it’s always a toss up, and tbh red is looking more likely to win atm….i mean the only bigger dem midterm campaigns I saw was Obama and the commy guy Al sayed or something🤣🤣 like it’s fairly obvious Obama is…
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it’s a falsehood that is propped up by all of these evil fucking stock market guys because they know republicans are more likely (not the dems don’t also do this) to play ball for any of the corporations that are losing huge amounts of money. if the dems get a big win during the midterms the stocks are going to fall more just like they do every…
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Two trillion wiped out. That's a Reddit headline. When a company is five and the next one below is four and the next one below that's three, and then the four after that are three, and the one below that's two, and the other one's one, and the others go into nine hundreds of billions, then that doesn't really matter. It's a two percent difference…
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But it’s not about recovery speed. I’m talking about stress. One stock drops 50% and it is very very stressful. Go to the MU forums where people (supposedly) full ported and now going “oh fuck when back to cost” Can you recover faster? 100% but if your one stock drops 50% as the market is green, you sweating a lot harder. Vs if the entire market…
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