KEY POINTS
- Panelists said 45 of about 47 local anti-datacenter ballot measures passed in the US election.
- A study cited on the show said 41 percent of active datacenter projects are in states where Democrats gained control.
- OpenAI reportedly responded by promising to stop signing NDAs and by rebranding datacenters as compute campuses.
Local opposition to datacenters was one of the tech-related themes of the latest US elections, according to a discussion on The Register's Kettle podcast. The panel said voters were mainly driven by other concerns, but that frustration with the tech industry and AI infrastructure was part of the picture.
