How data center development impacted midterm election results
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[0:05] After Tuesday's midterm elections, top
[0:07] Democrats are laying out their agenda,
[0:09] and that includes a focus on the future
[0:11] of artificial intelligence. Take a look
[0:13] at our CBS News exit poll. You see AI
[0:16] and data centers were major factors for
[0:18] a majority of Americans as they cast
[0:20] their vote. In all the Senate
[0:23] battlegrounds, majorities oppose the
[0:25] construction of data centers in their
[0:27] community and more voters see artificial
[0:29] intelligence is doing more harm to
[0:31] society than it helps. Ian Kryber covers
[0:35] AI for Puck and joins us now to discuss
[0:37] this. Ian, good morning to you and
[0:39] welcome. You know, you wrote on X, I've
[0:42] got your profile pulled up that this was
[0:44] also a data center election. Um, what
[0:47] proves that?
[0:50] >> Yeah, absolutely. So that there's
[0:51] there's a couple factors um at play here
[0:54] and and one of them is that we we had um
[0:58] I think 41 local ballot measures across
[1:01] around 13 states t