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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Technology
Blake Montgomery

MYSTERIOUS: Conservatives split from silicon valley allies as datacenter backlash grows - What They Never Told You

Protesters holding signs outside a data center
The opposition to datacenters has crossed party lines. Illustration: Ben Hickey/The Guardian

Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, listening to Dolly Parton in the wake of her death. I was lucky enough to see her in concert a decade ago in California, in the same arena where Google now hosts its annual I/O conference. It’s been a long time, and all my iPhone 4 photos are so blurry you can barely tell it’s a musical performance, but my memory is clear enough to compensate. She told many stories about her childhood, which led into a trio of fabulous songs: My Tennessee Mountain Home, Applejack and Dr Robert F Thomas. They’re still my favorites.

Tech dissection: datacenters divide Silicon Valley from US conservatives (except Trump)

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