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00:02The artificial intelligence data center boom faced a major setback in Tuesday's midterm elections, according to CNBC.
00:10Voters backed restrictions on data center construction in 40 of 41 local ballot measures across 10 states.
00:17Ohio accounted for 21 measures and elected Democrat Amy Acton as governor.
00:23Acton supports a conditional moratorium on data centers,
00:26requiring developers to cover utility costs and use union labor.
00:31SoftBank and SB Energy are developing an Ohio data center campus with the Department of Energy,
00:36backed by NVIDIA, in a project that could cost more than $500 billion.
00:42Democrats who campaigned on restricting new data center projects won key races in Ohio, Wisconsin, Georgia, and Texas.
00:49A CNBC voter poll found 56% of voters considered data centers a crucial or major factor in their decisions.
00:58The results complicate the tech industry's expansion plans,
01:01as companies spend hundreds of billions of dollars annually on AI infrastructure.
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