ace1-0 to humankind? US midterms vote puts AI, datacentres and the broligarchy back in their box | Heather Stewart
Last week’s midterms may not have cowed Donald Trump, but they should be a wake-up call for the grinning tech broligarchs who lined up at his inauguration two chaotic years ago. Clearly, the cost of living squeeze unleashed by Trump’s war in Iran was a big driver of the Democrat wave. But AI was also on the ballot – in many places, literally. Dozens of measures calling for limits on datacentre expansion were passed. And elsewhere, reining in the unchecked expansion of the power-hungry mega-sheds was a rallying c…
A Guardian column says voters passed dozens of ballot measures limiting datacentre expansion in the US midterms, which it expects to slow AI infrastructure building and strain AI-inflated market valuations.
The column says it remains to be seen whether datacentre objections signal a broader shift in opinion, and whether the tech sell-off will resume; the market effects are expectations, not measured outcomes.
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- JournalismThe Guardian2026-11-08
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