Will data centers rock the vote?

It's Election Day in the United States, and data centers have become a core issue in some of the country's most important midterm races. The Verge's Adi Robertson explains why people are uniting against data centers, why they've become a proxy for all kinds of other fights, and how this year's results might change the AI industry going forward.

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OpenAI is quietly renaming data centers ‘compute campuses’ | The Verge

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