{"id":1047824,"date":"2026-11-07T08:55:05","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T03:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1047824"},"modified":"2026-11-07T10:27:55","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T04:57:55","slug":"ai-data-centers-took-a-beating-in-the-midterm-elections-a-reckoning-may-be-ahead-for-tech-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/07\/ai-data-centers-took-a-beating-in-the-midterm-elections-a-reckoning-may-be-ahead-for-tech-giants\/","title":{"rendered":"AI data centers took a beating in the midterm elections, a reckoning may be ahead for tech giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HARRISBURG: After a campaign season filled with outrage against artificial intelligence data centers, the midterm elections ushered in a wave of Democrats pledging to clamp down on the energy-hungry behemoths. <\/p>\n<p>A tougher regulatory environment for AI giants and data center developers is expected to follow, even if President Donald Trump \u2014 perhaps the industry&#8217;s biggest champion \u2014 stalls any federal crackdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HARRISBURG: After a campaign season filled with outrage against artificial intelligence data centers, the midterm elections ushered in a wave of Democrats pledging to clamp down on the energy-hungry behemoths. A tougher regulatory environment for AI giants and data center developers is expected to follow, even if President Donald Trump \u2014 perhaps the industry&#8217;s biggest champion \u2014 stalls any federal crackdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1047824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1047824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047825,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047824\/revisions\/1047825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}