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Voters reject AI data center projects across US midterm ballots
Original: AI data centers comprehensively defeated at US midterm elections
Around 45 measures restricting or blocking AI data center developments appeared on ballots in the US midterm elections, and voters approved them overwhelmingly. The results amount to a broad public rebuke of large-scale data center construction, driven by concerns over electricity demand, water use and local impacts. Tech companies planning major AI infrastructure builds now face stronger local resistance.
Why now: Voters in multiple states just passed an unusually large wave of anti-data center measures in the midterms.
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- AI data centers comprehensively defeated at US midterm elections · rndsignals · 56
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