aceSeveral Democrats renew calls for datacenter pauses after blue wave
Several newly elected Democrats and Senator Bernie Sanders have renewed calls for datacenter moratoriums in the days after the US midterm elections. The sweeping Democratic victory, which was buoyed in part by backlash to the tech industry, has added momentum to efforts to slow down the multi-trillion-dollar buildout of the controversial facilities. On the social media platform X, Sanders posted a call for an immediate national datacenter moratorium this week. “Americans don’t want Big Tech oligarchs wrecking th…
After the midterms, Democratic officials from Sanders to Texas governor-elect Gina Hinojosa called for datacenter moratoriums, and the article reports a selloff of AI stocks as investors feared new regulation.
The White House argued that the ballot measures largely would not affect existing datacenter projects, so the effect of the calls on construction is unresolved.
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- JournalismThe Guardian2026-11-06
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