Data Centers Are Now a Midterm Issue, Even in Brooklyn

Data centers are now a midterm issue, even in Brooklyn

At a Brooklyn midterm party five days before Election Day, every conversation, from a council member’s fireside chat to a debate about the Democratic Party, kept circling back to AI and data centers.

In Brooklyn’s ‘commie corridor,’ a phone-free room of Democrats agreed a blue wave is coming — and fought about who gets the AI money

At a phone-free Newsreel event in Brooklyn five days before the midterms, the talk kept coming back to who gets rich off AI and its data centers.

AI Data Center Support Drew Boos at Brooklyn Midterm Event

Data centers came up beyond a scheduled electricity-bill panel, and Newsreel founder Jack Brewster said they surfaced in every onstage conversation.

Brooklyn Democrats predict midterm surge amid AI funding disputes

Brooklyn Democrats express confidence in midterm victories despite funding disputes. Republicans holding 50-52 Senate seats at 9.9% YES.

Newsreel midterms event: Democrats, data centers and who gets rich off AI

I checked my phone into a pouch at the door of 100 Sutton St. in Greenpoint on Thursday night, along with about 300 other people, five days before the midterms. It was deep in the so-called “commie corridor” that runs from northwest Queens through northern Brooklyn, and the crowd for Newsreel’s “Midterm Mania” panel and […]