"There will undoubtedly be the more openly right-leaning tech CEOs complaining about a Democratic victory, but the more ...

"There will undoubtedly be the more openly right-leaning tech CEOs complaining about a Democratic victory, but the more clever ones will be trying to figure out how they recalibrate to ensure projects are still getting approved. We’ve already seen Amazon announce it won’t use non-disclosure agreements anymore and the industry more widely embrace closed-loop cooling to try to address community concerns about water use (without disclosing the chemical tradeoff), to provide a couple examples. They will surely start taking more efforts designed to assuage concerns, while still trying to move forward hyperscale data centers that are fundamentally unsustainable and beyond what many communities can bear.Another path is spending. While tech spending still leaned Republican in this cycle, the AI industry is (sort of) bucking that trend. According to figures tracked by Molly White, AI-focused super PACs spent more supporting Democrats than Republicans as groups like Anthropic push for AI regulat...