{"id":80923,"date":"2026-11-04T20:54:47","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T01:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/datacenters-were-on-the-ballot-us-voters-rejected-them\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T20:54:47","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T01:54:47","slug":"datacenters-were-on-the-ballot-us-voters-rejected-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/datacenters-were-on-the-ballot-us-voters-rejected-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Datacenters were on the ballot. US voters rejected them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voters approved nearly every datacenter moratorium that was on the ballot, dozens in total in Tuesday\u2019s elections<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2026\/nov\/04\/midterm-elections-full-results-senate-house-governor-races\">Track live results from all 50 states<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/04\/midterm-election-results-question-answer\">Send us your questions about the US midterms results and Democrats\u2019 \u2018blue wave\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There were three big losers in Tuesday\u2019s midterm elections in the US: Donald Trump, Elon Musk and datacenters.<\/p>\n<p>Datacenters, the facilities full of semiconductor chips that power artificial intelligence and a host of other online products, were on the ballot in elections in at least 40 jurisdictions across 10 states. Voters responded with a strong rebuke of the giant buildings, which have has become a symbol of the tech industry and AI.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/04\/datacenters-midterm-elections\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voters approved nearly every datacenter moratorium that was on the ballot, dozens in total in Tuesday\u2019s elections Track live results from all 50 states Send us your questions about the US midterms results and Democrats\u2019 \u2018blue wave\u2019 There were three big losers in Tuesday\u2019s midterm elections in the US: Donald Trump, Elon Musk and datacenters. &#8230; <a title=\"Datacenters were on the ballot. US voters rejected them\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/datacenters-were-on-the-ballot-us-voters-rejected-them\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Datacenters were on the ballot. US voters rejected them\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80923","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=80923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}