Data center builders met during the midterms. Here's what they said.
Source: Business Insider ·
Data centers took an across-the-board drubbing in the midterm elections on Tuesday. Data center builders, meanwhile, were playing pickleball.
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Data center protesters in Michigan. Data center builders were playing pickleball while polls opened on the East Coast on Tuesday.Sarah Rice/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesData centers received an across-the-board drubbing in the midterm elections on Tuesday.The people building them? They were playing pickleball at a conference in Virginia.Their optimism for the data center buildout is not exactly shared by investors — or many Americans.While data centers were taking it on the chin in Tuesday's midterm elections, the people building them were playing pickleball at a conference in Virginia.And they weren't exactly reacting constructively to the news."Suddenly we have protesters and people saying four-letter words about us," Jeff Wabik, the chief technology officer at DC BLOX, a data center developer based in Atlanta, said of common complaints about the centers, like their noise."You know, most of that is just straightforward misinformation," he added. "There have been some bad actors."At…
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