It's Election Day in the United States, and data centers have become a core issue in some of the country's most important midterm races. The Verge's Adi Robertson explains why people are uniting against data centers, why they've become a proxy for all kinds of other fights, and how this year's results might change the AI industry going forward.

Further reading:
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 <li><a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1025245/apple-earnings-q4-ai">Apple is all in on AI — its own and everyone else’s | The Verge</a></li>
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 <li><a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1025242/openai-quietly-renames-data-centers-as-compute-campuses">OpenAI is quietly renaming data centers ‘compute campuses’ | The Verge</a></li>
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 <li><a href="https://www.theverge.com/games/1025271/gta-vi-storage-space-rockstar-games">GTA VI’s download will need up to 212GB of hard drive space | The Verge</a></li>
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 <li><a href="https://www.theverge.com/policy/1020640/midterm-elections-2026-all-the-news">Midterm elections 2026: all the news</a></li>
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 <li>The Verge's investigative series: <a href="https://www.theverge.com/cs/ai-artificial-intelligence/1004040/data-centers-ai-investment-environment-backlash/">The Center Will Not Hold</a></li>
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 <li><a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/1025015/2026-ipad-mini-oled-review">The 2026 iPad Mini is a terrific tiny tablet — for a big price</a></li>
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