Meta president Dina Powell McCormick on new US governors: Not all are against data centres; one told her: As soon as we get past the inauguration, let’s…
Meta president Dina Powell McCormick expects the US midterm results to make data centres harder to build. She also thinks some of the politicians who campaigned against them may be more willing to talk than their speeches suggest. Powell McCormick spoke with WSJ editor-in-chief Emma Tucker at the WSJ Tech conference in Napa on Wednesday. She said one governor who won on Tuesday, after making data centres a major campaign issue, contacted Meta soon after. “As soon as we get past the inauguration, let’s meet,” the governor told her. They said they did not want to lose the investment, adding, “We don’t want these jobs to go elsewhere.”
She did not name the governor.
