The Verge article Total repudiation: The blue wave is about to hit AI is by Hayden Field. article:published_time is 2026-11-05T17:51:52+00:00, which is 01:51 in Beijing on Nov. 6, inside this morning window. The article says that of the local data-center moratoria on Tuesday's ballots, 43 of 44 passed. The sentence does not say who counted them. The Redbud tally already published was 38 of 44 measures across 10 states. The 404 Media tally was a different, still-open set of no votes. The three figures cannot be added together. This column records only the Verge sentence and notes that the counter is unnamed.
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The Texas passage quotes governor-elect Gina Hinojosa as planning to issue a moratorium, described in the same sentence as a ban, on all data-center approvals until the legislature passes laws to protect Texans. The article calls Texas the fastest-growing data-center buildout and a key battleground state. That is the article's characterization. Guru Sethupathy, general manager of AI governance at Optro, said data centers were clearly on the ballot. An NBC News poll on Tuesday is relayed as 76 percent opposed to data centers in their communities. Wes McEnany of the Future of Life Institute, described as a former deputy on a Senate committee, called Tuesday's result a total repudiation of the AI field. Shaunna Thomas of Guardrails Alliance said the data-center backlash is one of the most bipartisan political issues she has seen. Kyle Jacobs-Morse of The Tech Oversight Project said that in the governor's races in Texas, Georgia, and Ohio, Democratic campaigns put local data-center issues in front, including spillover costs.
[1]The article presents experts as saying that attempts to bar state-level AI restrictions are likely over after the midterms. Thomas called the idea completely dead. McEnany said a member who votes to wipe out state AI laws will be looking for a job in the next round. Those are two people's judgments, not a finding by a court or a canvass. The article does not attach a list of the 43 or the 44.
[1]Later, the article says OpenAI has recently begun calling its data centers compute campuses, and that in September President Trump tried to rename the technology super intelligence. Thomas said that kind of renaming is even less likely to work after the election. Katie Barr, CEO of Glen Echo Group and a partner at Orchestra, said she would not over-read the results as an overwhelming rejection of tech, but as a reckoning on affordability, jobs, safety, and whether people have a say in their communities. A note from Yorkville Ives & Co. is relayed as telling tech investors to prepare for major legislative hurdles and a slowdown in planned construction of up to 1,000 data centers across the country, with a possible slight positive in avoiding a bubble. The 1,000 is a ceiling in the note. The article attaches no list. Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia was reelected after campaigning for AI safety policy. A victory speech by Sen. Jon Ossoff of Georgia is quoted as saying the titans of Silicon Valley dig bunkers and warn that the artificial intelligence they are creating risks human extinction. The article also says Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar introduced a bill in September to ban superintelligence. President Trump is described as calling an AI safety crisis a hoax. These are the article's relays and quotations, not a poll this edition ran.
[1]The 43 therefore stays inside the Verge sentence, with no table after it. The 76 percent is the article's relay of an NBC poll. The image is the article's header, a graphic of voting booths, not the list of 43 measures.
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