aceHow tech became the villain of the US midterms
The campaign ad begins with a clear, idyllic stream that suddenly turns sludge-brown as two concrete datacenters slam onto its banks. Another facility thuds down on a peaceful suburban park, and two more crush-green pastures as an ominous soundtrack to a disaster movie blares overtop. “They’re coming for our rivers. Our neighborhoods. Our farmland,” a deep-voiced narrator says. “Because Brent Taylor wrote the law allowing datacenters to take over Tennessee.” The attack ad, paid for by the Democrat-aligned Three…
Public backlash against datacenters and AI-enabled Flock license-plate cameras has turned the tech industry into a political liability, pushing candidates toward moratorium calls and attack ads while industry money floods the races.
The source notes that polls still rank the economy, democracy and healthcare above tech issues, so the political salience of AI and datacenters is not established as decisive for voters.
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- JournalismThe Guardian2026-10-22
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