The long and the short of IT - the week in digibytes

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The US mid-term results demand that we re-frame the AI data center expansion debate

Data centers in space [are] looking pretty appealing right now.

Good to see that Elon Musk still has a sense of humor after the mid-term pummelling that Trump 2.0 took at the ballot box this week. (Musk is in for a lot of money from backing the now beleaguered President, of course.)

So, we end the week with an incoming Democrat Congress, a Democrat Senate, and a Republican president with a veto and a proven appetite for confrontation and tolerance of government shutdowns. All told, a recipe for two years of policy uncertainty, impasse, and tension.

What are the tech sector implications? Well, spare a thought for those who ditched over-regulated, over-taxed California and fled for the welcoming embrace of Texas. That’s maybe not looking like quite the safe haven it was supposed to be any...

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