Meta Warns Midterm Backlash Threatens AI Data Centers

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>"No source establishes that data center opposition produced a specific share of any winning margin."

That may be the case with respect to candidate winning margins. However, there were 41 data center related ballot initiatives in 10 states, and, according to CNBC, "Voters backed restrictions or rejected pro-development measures in nearly every contest with results available Wednesday, with Harwood, North Dakota, the exception." This provides a clear picture of how voters feel about this issue.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/11/04/data-center-ballot-measures-...

Local inference is the future of free and open AI. Datacenters, on the other hand, are the future of totalitarian control and other dangerous projects.

Agree. I wonder what the frontier AI companies are doing about this. Are they researching how to make these models more efficient? Or are they all in on more data, more power?

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