{"id":9951,"date":"2026-11-04T18:35:20","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T02:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/ai-data-centers-crushed-at-the-ballot-box-in-10-states\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T18:35:20","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T02:35:20","slug":"ai-data-centers-crushed-at-the-ballot-box-in-10-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/ai-data-centers-crushed-at-the-ballot-box-in-10-states\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Data Centers CRUSHED at the Ballot Box in 10 States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tK9JwxkXb3Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Voters delivered a stunning rebuke to the AI data center boom in the 2026 midterms. Across 41 local ballot measures in 10 states, voters backed restrictions or rejected data center projects in nearly every race with results so far, according to Ballotpedia and CNBC.<\/p>\n<p>In this video:<br \/>\n\u2022 Where data centers were on the ballot: Ohio, Kansas, California, Illinois, Florida and more<br \/>\n\u2022 Ohio\u2019s 21 data center measures and the towns that passed bans<br \/>\n\u2022 El Dorado, Kansas votes for a 10-year ban<br \/>\n\u2022 The one town that said YES<br \/>\n\u2022 Why voters are angry: electricity bills, water, farmland and noise<br \/>\n\u2022 How data centers shaped the governor and Senate races in Ohio, Texas and Georgia<br \/>\n\u2022 AI super PACs spent $250M and mostly lost. What\u2019s next for Big Tech?<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcac Is a data center being built near you? Tell us in the comments!<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd14 Subscribe for more midterm coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Results are preliminary; some measures are still being counted.<\/p>\n<p>#DataCenters #AI #Midterms2026 #BigTech #Ohio #ElectionResults #BlueWave<\/p>\n<p>Want to create live streams like this? Check out StreamYard: https:\/\/streamyard.com\/pal\/d\/5759717953503232<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voters delivered a stunning rebuke to the AI data center boom in the 2026 midterms. Across 41 local<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lisa-cabrera"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/hqdefault-51.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}