Though the midterms have been dubbed “the AI election” and a resounding repudiation of tech, it’s hard to tell what all this practically means.
There’s a whole lot that’s clear, to be sure. The blue wave was massive, and in part that wave traces back to serious anti-tech sentiment, especially around data centers. It’s worth pinning this down clearly: Americans, right now, overwhelmingly hate data centers. A Gallup and UMass Amherst poll from earlier this year said that more than 70% of Americans oppose data center construction, and the Democrats capitalized (Democrats in over 130 federal and gubernatorial races ran anti-tech or anti-data center ads).
