美中期选举后数据中心扩张受阻 马斯克政治投入落空
美国中期选举中，多地选民否决数据中心相关议案，并选出主张限制数据中心的政客，超大规模厂商的项目审批正面临越来越大的草根阻力。马斯克投入约 5 亿美元支持共和党却几乎未获回报，其公司总部所在州政治版图明显转蓝。OpenAI 等企业已开始调整政策以应对这一变化。
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Democrats’ historic victory in this week’s midterm elections could also have a dramatic effect on the tech industry.
In dozens of local ballot measures, voters rejected data centers. And even when they weren’t voting on the issue directly, they were electing politicians — like Texas’ new governor-elect Gina Hinojosa — who campaigned on the promise of restricting data centers.
On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I discussed what the midterms mean for the tech industry. Sean kicked it off by noting that Elon Musk “seems to have basically nothing out of donating half a billion dollars” to Republicans, while his companies are now headquartered “in a state that has, remarkably, turned about as blue as it could possibly turn.”
And Kirsten said that while data centers probably weren’t the main cause of the “blue wave,” they’ve become an “an increasingly grassroots issue, in part because of how hyperscalers and companies have gone about” getting their projects approved. And now, “we’re already seeing companies like OpenAI all of a sudden go, ‘Actually, we can change our policies.’”