{"id":88139,"date":"2026-11-06T06:51:28","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T11:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=88139"},"modified":"2026-11-06T06:51:28","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T11:51:28","slug":"data-centers-take-election-beating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/data-centers-take-election-beating\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Centers Take Election Beating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After a campaign season filled with outrage against <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/data-centers-artificial-intelligence-nimby-tech-b4b0544036989fc33820e8306593aff9\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">data centers<\/a><\/span>, the midterm elections ushered in a wave of Democrats pledging to clamp down on the energy-hungry behemoths.\u00a0A tougher regulatory environment for artificial intelligence giants and data center developers is expected to follow, even if President Donald Trump \u2014 perhaps the<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ai-data-centers-trump-election-cd2cfd73e3d41e2baf65bf82702a589b\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">industry\u2019s biggest champion<\/a><\/span> \u2014<\/span> stalls any federal crackdown.<\/p>\n<p>Data center regulation itself was not on most midterm ballots, and it wasn\u2019t among the top issues for most voters. But hardline stances against the server warehouses were woven into the platforms of many candidates, including the Democrats who upended longtime Republican control of the governorships in Texas, Ohio, Georgia, Nevada and Iowa, many of which are data center hotspots. In Texas, Clayton Tucker, the first Democrat elected state agriculture commissioner since 1986, said his pledge to fight data center development was critical to his victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: After a campaign season filled with outrage against data centers, the midterm elections ushered in a wave of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88140,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88139\/revisions\/88140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}