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AI's institutional friction gets its first electoral verdict

The New York Times, Nov 4 · read the original

A mainstream read of the midterms frames voter unease with AI data centers and campaign spending as a factor in the results, with regulatory scrutiny promised next, arriving the same week a prior Times and Siena poll already found most voters opposed to new AI data centers.

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