{"id":25604,"date":"2026-10-22T12:37:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T10:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/22\/how-tech-became-the-villain-of-the-us-midterms\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T12:37:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T10:37:23","slug":"how-tech-became-the-villain-of-the-us-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/22\/how-tech-became-the-villain-of-the-us-midterms\/","title":{"rendered":"How tech became the villain of the US midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Datacenters, AI and distaste for the billionaires developing it has soured Americans on big tech<\/p>\n<p>The campaign ad begins with a clear, idyllic stream that suddenly turns sludge-brown as two concrete datacenters slam onto its banks. Another facility thuds down on a peaceful suburban park, and two more crush-green pastures as an ominous soundtrack to a disaster movie blares overtop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re coming for our rivers. Our neighborhoods. Our farmland,\u201d a deep-voiced narrator says. \u201cBecause Brent Taylor wrote the law allowing datacenters to take over Tennessee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2026\/oct\/22\/us-midterms-tech-datacenters-ai\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/bee9ffbae201f232019437dd608cde56248e206a\/0_618_2744_2194\/master\/2744.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=12783154694bb2037b9eebd91b0c343e\" title=\"How tech became the villain of the US midterms\" \/>Datacenters, AI and distaste for the billionaires developing it has soured Americans on big tech<br \/>\nThe campaign ad begins with a clear, idyllic stream that suddenly turns sludge-brown as two concrete datacenters slam onto its banks. Another facility thuds down on a peaceful suburban park, and two more crush-green pastures as an ominous soundtrack to a disaster movie blares overtop.<br \/>\n\u201cThey\u2019re coming for our rivers. Our neighborhoods. Our farmland,\u201d a deep-voiced narrator says. \u201cBecause Brent Taylor wrote the law allowing datacenters to take over Tennessee.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Datacenters, AI and distaste for the billionaires developing it has soured Americans on big tech The campaign ad begins with a clear, idyllic stream that suddenly turns sludge-brown as two concrete datacenters slam onto its banks. Another facility thuds down on a peaceful suburban park, and two more crush-green pastures as an ominous soundtrack to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/22\/how-tech-became-the-villain-of-the-us-midterms\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How tech became the villain of the US midterms<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25605,"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\/25604"}],"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=25604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}