{"id":67879,"date":"2026-03-03T08:00:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T13:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/showdown-over-datacenter-politics-at-heart-of-north-carolina-primary\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T08:00:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T13:00:44","slug":"showdown-over-datacenter-politics-at-heart-of-north-carolina-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/showdown-over-datacenter-politics-at-heart-of-north-carolina-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Showdown over datacenter politics at heart of North Carolina primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic rematch in Durham-area district draws focus to fight over AI datacenters increasingly shaping US elections<\/p>\n<p>A North Carolina congressional primary on Tuesday is an early test of datacenter politics \u2013 a fight increasingly shaping elections nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>In the Durham-area fourth district, Congresswoman Valerie Foushee is seeking her third term against progressive challenger Nida Allam, a Durham county commissioner she defeated in 2022.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/03\/datacenter-politics-north-carolina-primary\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic rematch in Durham-area district draws focus to fight over AI datacenters increasingly shaping US elections A North Carolina congressional primary on Tuesday is an early test of datacenter politics \u2013 a fight increasingly shaping elections nationwide. In the Durham-area fourth district, Congresswoman Valerie Foushee is seeking her third term against progressive challenger Nida Allam, &#8230; <a title=\"Showdown over datacenter politics at heart of North Carolina primary\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/showdown-over-datacenter-politics-at-heart-of-north-carolina-primary\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Showdown over datacenter politics at heart of North Carolina primary\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}