‘Our Risk, Their Reward’: Zohran Mamdani on AI and Data Centers

If you think you had a wild year, just imagine how New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani must feel.

In October 2025, weeks before his historic election win, WIRED sat down with Mamdani for an interview at his campaign office. I remember, vividly, the energy that he carried into the room. This was a man, after all, who’d just pulled off a stunning political feat, rising from being an unknown to becoming the mayoral front-runner in a matter of months. In part, that was because of his message, which focused squarely on affordability and the working class. But much of Mamdani’s campaign success can be attributed to how that message was delivered, namely through a mastery of social media that made every other politician in America look like they were still figuring out how to open Instagram.

Mamdani, then just about to turn 34, radiated in our first conversation with...

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