Voters rebuff data centers in every ballot measure except one during the 2026 midterms
Voters in the states at the heart of the AI data center boom pushed back on the buildout on Election Night.
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‘If you wanted a sort of ‘poster child’ stock for the data-center build-out theme more generally (and in Texas specifically), you could do a lot worse than Sterling Infrastructure… For some…
‘If you wanted a sort of ‘poster child’ stock for the data-center build-out theme more generally (and in Texas specifically), you could do a lot worse than Sterling Infrastructure… For some iterations, the bubble has clearly and conclusively already burst.’ blinks.bloomberg.com/news/stories...
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“.. Now they have to find new ways to recast their [data center] projects as pro-worker and community-friendly to make sure the AI buildout actually happens — and to find spokespeople more appealing…
“.. Now they have to find new ways to recast their [data center] projects as pro-worker and community-friendly to make sure the AI buildout actually happens — and to find spokespeople more appealing than the DOGE twins.” @semafor.com www.semafor.com/article/11/0...
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