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    American Voters Overwhelmingly Reject AI Data Centers

    Widespread voter opposition, municipal bans, and power restrictions directly threaten the physical infrastructure and energy access needed to scale AI compute in the United States.

    US voters in the 2026 midterm elections voted against AI data centers in at least 38 of more than 40 ballot measures across 13 states, passing outright bans in six cities and power limits in 12. Pro-data center politicians also lost offices nationwide, including Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who was defeated by Democratic challenger Gina Hinojosa after his support for AI data centers became a central campaign issue.

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    Anthropic reports $17B in Q3 revenue, commitments of $895B in revised S-1

    Anthropic's IPO filings provide an unprecedented public look at the massive revenue scale and nearly $900 billion compute commitments of a frontier AI lab.

    Anthropic filed an amended Form S-1 for its upcoming IPO, reporting $17 billion in third-quarter revenue and $33.24 billion in revenue for the first nine months of the year alongside a $104 billion net loss. The filing also revealed $895.4 billion in future purchase and lease commitments, nearly all of which are dedicated to compute and infrastructure.

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