The American election is rightly called a "blue tsunami". Beneath this wave lies a more interesting story: For the first time, people voted en masse against the way Silicon Valley was building the future, and the Valley's money could do nothing about it. The very idea of ​​"progress" as presented by Musk, Altman, Thiel and company has been destroyed in a political sense. 1. referendum. Across the country, at the same time as the elections, the local communities set up the data centers to vote: more than 40 referendums in 10 countries in just one day. "Progress" lost them, count them all. They voted for various things: prohibitions, moratorium, limitation of power, and that nothing should be built without the consent of the residents. In some places, the prohibition was included in advance in the territory regulations, when there was still no data center project. Just to be safe. Surveys show that as many as ten Americans are willing to have a data center near them. 2. Candidates. The winners were those who resisted the data centers earlier, louder and more firmly. The losers were those who cut films at the openings and held developer shares. The late reversal did not help: the Texas governor himself introduced a moratorium two months before the election and still lost to the candidate who promised the moratorium before him. Until the fall, no one even dared to publicly defend data centers, including Republicans who used the money of data center builders. 3. Electricity bill. This is the introduction to the topic. Abstract Inflation has been given an address: a huge building in a former field outside the city. Later - land, water and the right to decide. The neighbors of the data center were offered free electricity, and the candidate with this offer lost. They voted for agricultural land, for tap water and against construction decisions made without people. Data center projects were initially unpopular, so they were negotiated under confidentiality agreements, and land and water were discussed with local communities after the deal. As a result, referendums also annulled treaties signed by the elected local authorities. 4. Double counting.

The American election is rightly called a "blue tsunami". Beneath this wave lies a more interesting story: For the first time, people voted en masse against the way Silicon Valley was building the future, and the Valley's money could do nothing about it. The very idea of ​​"progress" as presented by Musk, Altman, Thiel and company has been destroyed in a political sense. 1. referendum. Across the country, at the same time as the elections, the local communities set up the data centers to vote: more than 40 referendums in 10 countries in just one day. "Progress" lost them, count them all. They voted for various things: prohibitions, moratorium, limitation of power, and that nothing should be built without the consent of the residents. In some places, the prohibition was included in advance in the territory regulations, when there was still no data center project. Just to be safe. Surveys show that as many as ten Americans are willing to have a data center near them. 2. Candidates. The winners were those who resisted the data centers earlier, louder and more firmly. The losers were those who cut films at the openings and held developer shares. The late reversal did not help: the Texas governor himself introduced a moratorium two months before the election and still lost to the candidate who promised the moratorium before him. Until the fall, no one even dared to publicly defend data centers, including Republicans who used the money of data center builders. 3. Electricity bill. This is the introduction to the topic. Abstract Inflation has been given an address: a huge building in a former field outside the city. Later - land, water and the right to decide. The neighbors of the data center were offered free electricity, and the candidate with this offer lost. They voted for agricultural land, for tap water and against construction decisions made without people. Data center projects were initially unpopular, so they were negotiated under confidentiality agreements, and land and water were discussed with local communities after the deal. As a result, referendums also annulled treaties signed by the elected local authorities. 4. Double counting.