Datacenters, Elon Musk, and AI are all on the chopping block once Congress changes hands in 2027
But the corruption is not totally separate from the tech industry, given the way that the tech industry has been cozying up with Donald Trump, the fact that Elon Musk and DOGE were cruising through the federal government, destroying stuff.
Key points
- So let's start off by dissecting the degree to which AI datacenters and attitudes toward the tech industry in general sort of played a role in this election.
- The first is that a lot of these datacenters have been popping up in people's communities without a robust public comment period.
- Join host Brandon Vigliarolo, El Reg Editor In Chief Matt Rosoff, and special guest, senior reporter at The Verge, Elizabeth Lopatto, to talk about what the winds of political change mean for the tech industry.
It's easy to see this entirely as a rebuke of Trump and his policies, but blowback against AI, datacenters, and the tech industry played a role too, if the past week of chaos in markets and Silicon Valley is any indication.
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- So that seems to me to be some indication that people at least don't like whatever these things are being shoved down their throats, which is funny because two years ago nobody knew what a datacenter was.
- The Democratic Party dealt a pretty hearty rebuke to Donald Trump, Republicans, and the MAGA movement, with Dems winning elections in states that haven't gone blue in decades.
- The Democratic party has seized control of Congress and state governments around the country.
- Matt Rosoff (02:04) I thought it was interesting that of something like 47 anti-datacenter initiatives on local ballots, 45 of them passed and only one failed.
- And then obviously there's the datacenter stuff, which is universally unpopular, not the only bipartisan issue in the US right now, but certainly a big one.
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