{"id":24658,"date":"2026-09-01T12:38:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T10:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/01\/conservatives-split-from-silicon-valley-allies-as-datacenter-backlash-grows\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T12:38:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T10:38:33","slug":"conservatives-split-from-silicon-valley-allies-as-datacenter-backlash-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/01\/conservatives-split-from-silicon-valley-allies-as-datacenter-backlash-grows\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservatives split from Silicon Valley allies as datacenter backlash grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech companies have underestimated the opposition to energy-hungry datacenters \u2013 and experts predict the pushback will intensify<\/p>\n<p>Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I\u2019m your host, Blake Montgomery, listening to Dolly Parton in the wake of her death. I was lucky enough to see her in concert a decade ago in California, in the same arena where Google now hosts its annual I\/O conference. It\u2019s been a long time, and all my iPhone 4 photos are so blurry you can barely tell it\u2019s a musical performance, but my memory is clear enough to compensate. She told many stories about her childhood, which led into a trio of fabulous songs: My Tennessee Mountain Home, Applejack, and Dr Robert F Thomas. They\u2019re still my favorites.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/audio\/2026\/apr\/29\/siri-where-does-apple-go-next-podcast\">Siri, where does Apple go next? \u2013 podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/apr\/21\/apple-tim-cook-privacy\">Apple\u2019s Tim Cook leaves behind complicated legacy on privacy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/apr\/20\/tim-cook-apple-steve-jobs\">Fifteen years after Steve Jobs, Tim Cook leaves a dramatically different Apple<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/apr\/20\/john-ternus-apple-ceo-tim-cook\">Who is John Ternus, Apple\u2019s next CEO?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/aug\/31\/superhuman-ai-tool-spots-heart-disease\">\u2018Superhuman\u2019 AI tool spots heart disease in less than 2 seconds<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2026\/aug\/31\/doctors-ai-scribes-get-names-of-drugs-and-diagnoses-wrong-nhs-watchdog-warns\">Doctors\u2019 AI scribes get names of drugs and diagnoses wrong, NHS watchdog warns<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2026\/aug\/27\/mammograms-heart-disease-in-women-study\">AI can detect heart disease in women using mammograms, study suggests<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2026\/sep\/01\/how-misinformation-ai-hallucinations-infiltrating-australian-parliament\">\u2018Scary\u2019: how misinformation and AI hallucinations are infiltrating Australia\u2019s parliament<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/27\/trump-truth-social-ai-george-washington\">AI slopper in chief: Trump turns to social media amid tough questions<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2026\/aug\/30\/data-center-politics-democrats-republicans\">The datacenter backlash is bringing the entire political spectrum together \u2013 against big tech billionaires<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/sep\/01\/datacenter-backlash-conservatives-silicon-valley\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/13dbd123e3b27da04d0db84e9c31f9872aa74f8c\/0_648_3000_2399\/master\/3000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3619999932d50a6a55e77935bd43d945\" title=\"Conservatives split from Silicon Valley allies as datacenter backlash grows\" \/>Tech companies have underestimated the opposition to energy-hungry datacenters \u2013 and experts predict the pushback will intensify<br \/>\nHello, and welcome to TechScape. 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I\u2019m your host, Blake Montgomery, listening to Dolly Parton in the wake of her death. I was lucky enough to see her in concert a decade ago in California, in the same arena &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/01\/conservatives-split-from-silicon-valley-allies-as-datacenter-backlash-grows\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Conservatives split from Silicon Valley allies as datacenter backlash grows<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24659,"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\/24658"}],"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=24658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}