How a blue wave crushed the tech right
Source: Business Insider ·
The Democratic wins that swept America on election night was a backlash against data centers, and a rebuke to Silicon Valley elites.
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Kent NISHIMURA / AFP via Getty Images; Rebecca Zisser/BIElon Musk spent $446 million on the midterm elections. He ended up one of the biggest losers.Democrats tapped into voter fury over data centers encroaching on their neighborhoods.Markets are confident in Big Tech stocks, but CEOs may now have to face Congressional subpoenas.For Elon Musk, $446 million wasn't much. It amounted to about a twentieth of a percent of his net worth.In the world of politics, it seemed like a tsunami. Ultimately, Musk was the one drowned by a wave.For all the money he spent to help Republicans win the midterms — and keep his political grip on Texas, the state where Tesla and SpaceX are headquartered — Musk was one of the biggest losers.The blue wave that swept America on election night was a repudiation of President Donald Trump's policies, including tariffs and a war in Iran that fueled inflation. It was a backlash against data centers, the physical symbols of how artificial intelligence has been…
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