{"id":231972,"date":"2026-06-10T11:54:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T11:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=231972"},"modified":"2026-06-10T11:54:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T11:54:41","slug":"data-centers-are-expensive-unpopular-and-could-be-a-tipping-point-in-the-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=231972","title":{"rendered":"Data centers are expensive, unpopular \u2014 and could be a tipping point in the midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anger over the data center boom has spilled into politics with voters unseating local politicians who support them. It&#8217;s become an issue hard to ignore in the midterm elections&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/04\/20\/g-s1-117729\/data-center-disputes-local-midterms\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anger over the data center boom has spilled into politics with voters unseating local politicians<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231972-data-centers-are-expensive-unpopular-and-could-be-a-tipping-point-in-the-midterms.jpg",1400,788,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231972-data-centers-are-expensive-unpopular-and-could-be-a-tipping-point-in-the-midterms-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231972-data-centers-are-expensive-unpopular-and-could-be-a-tipping-point-in-the-midterms-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231972-data-centers-are-expensive-unpopular-and-could-be-a-tipping-point-in-the-midterms-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231972-data-centers-are-expensive-unpopular-and-could-be-a-tipping-point-in-the-midterms-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231972-data-centers-are-expensive-unpopular-and-could-be-a-tipping-point-in-the-midterms.jpg",1400,788,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231972-data-centers-are-expensive-unpopular-and-could-be-a-tipping-point-in-the-midterms.jpg",1400,788,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231972-data-centers-are-expensive-unpopular-and-could-be-a-tipping-point-in-the-midterms-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231972-data-centers-are-expensive-unpopular-and-could-be-a-tipping-point-in-the-midterms-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231972-data-centers-are-expensive-unpopular-and-could-be-a-tipping-point-in-the-midterms-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/231973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}