America Voted Against Data Centers: What the Midterms Mean for AI and Why It Might Be Good

On Tuesday, one of the most pivotal decisions in tech history was made, and it's not looking great for AI at all. Almost 45% of planned data center capacity, data centers being the bedrock of this entire AI economy, is planned to be paused, slowed down, or at worst, shut down completely.

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of going, think, data, including: Almost 45% of planned data center capacity, data centers being the bedrock of this entire AI economy, is planned to be paused, slowed down, or at worst, shut down completely.

1. 01But in a crazy turn of events, this might actually end up being net-net really good for the AI industry because it slows everything down, so there's no danger of actually overbuild
2. 02Anyway, I want to unpack this because even though it's all to do with politics and stuff like that, there are massive ramifications for how this affects the AI industry build-out,
3. 03But the point around this episode is I have a lot of thoughts and I have a lot of opinions as to how this is going to affect the AI build-out