{"id":22173,"date":"2026-03-03T12:37:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T11:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/showdown-over-datacenter-politics-at-heart-of-north-carolina-primary\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T12:37:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T11:37:25","slug":"showdown-over-datacenter-politics-at-heart-of-north-carolina-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/showdown-over-datacenter-politics-at-heart-of-north-carolina-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Showdown over datacenter politics at heart of North Carolina primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic rematch in Durham-area district draws focus to fight over AI datacenters increasingly shaping US elections<\/p>\n<p>A North Carolina congressional primary on Tuesday is an early test of datacenter politics \u2013 a fight increasingly shaping elections nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>In the Durham-area fourth district, Congresswoman Valerie Foushee is seeking her third term against progressive challenger Nida Allam, a Durham county commissioner she defeated in 2022.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/03\/datacenter-politics-north-carolina-primary\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/47882c2d76a161a0233be85fe92a95966ed77cd7\/0_0_1500_1200\/master\/1500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3909c1d936bd7c8aadbdc2b85190b5c7\" title=\"Showdown over datacenter politics at heart of North Carolina primary\" \/>Democratic rematch in Durham-area district draws focus to fight over AI datacenters increasingly shaping US elections<br \/>\nA North Carolina congressional primary on Tuesday is an early test of datacenter politics \u2013 a fight increasingly shaping elections nationwide.<br \/>\nIn the Durham-area fourth district, Congresswoman Valerie Foushee is seeking her third term against progressive challenger Nida Allam, a Durham county commissioner she defeated in 2022. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic rematch in Durham-area district draws focus to fight over AI datacenters increasingly shaping US elections A North Carolina congressional primary on Tuesday is an early test of datacenter politics \u2013 a fight increasingly shaping elections nationwide. In the Durham-area fourth district, Congresswoman Valerie Foushee is seeking her third term against progressive challenger Nida Allam, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/showdown-over-datacenter-politics-at-heart-of-north-carolina-primary\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Showdown over datacenter politics at heart of North Carolina primary<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22173"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}