Protesters break into Microsoft data center construction site in Amsterdam

Protesters break into Microsoft data center site in Amsterdam. Around 100 people made it into the construction site, with some scaling a crane to place a “fuck AI” banner. Details 👇

The results are in and data centers lost 46 of 47 ballot initiatives in the midterms. We should expect to see those failures met by even larger-scale bans when new governors, Congressmen, and state officials take office.

This week's results make me optimistic. We have an unprecedented bipartisan opportunity to take on Big Tech’s abuse of market power and open up markets for the next generation of founders. Inventing powerful AI is only half the job. People must be able to use it to make their lives better and their businesses more productive. That gets harder when a few trillion-dollar companies can block new products from reaching them. Congress can open those markets for Little Tech. Let thousands of startups compete to lower costs and grow the economy for everyone. We should spread the gains from AI as widely as possible, not concentrate even more power in the companies that already control distribution.

As we're seeing with the markets, the blue wave midterm results are already impacting the AI industry Our piece on how this could slow AI companies' data center plans and shift the policy landscape w/ @eastland_maggie