Several counties put data center issues on the ballot during the midterm elections, with most Americans voting against data center development in their county.
The midterms were the first proxy election on AI and data centers, and Silicon Valley lost in a landslide.
Republicans and tech companies have tried to sell data centers as economy-boosting engineering marvels. Voters didn’t buy it.
Nowhere was the rebuke stronger than the now-blue Ohio.
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