Voters across 10 states largely turned their backs on data center expansion at the ballot box, approving restrictions and outright bans on such facilities in all but one of the ballot questions put before them. The results signal a broad public skepticism toward the rapid growth of data infrastructure in communities across the country.<\/p>\n
Source:<\/strong> Newsweek \u2014 Map Shows How Data Center Measures Fared Across 10 States<\/a>. Also reported by The New York Times<\/a>, NBC News<\/a>, The Wall Street Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n AI-assisted summary; the reporting is the source's. Read the original at the link.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Voters across 10 states largely turned their backs on data center expansion at the ballot…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[370,369,59,371,372],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election-2026","tag-ballot-measures","tag-data-centers","tag-midterm-elections","tag-tech-policy","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}