【期中選舉那天，資料中心幾乎輸光每一場地方公投 🗳️】
11 月 3 日的地方投票裡，和資料中心有關的案子幾乎全數落敗。這張圖統計了 47 項，其中 46 項的結果對資料中心不利。
不同追蹤機構算出來的數字不一樣。有的算 41 項裡 40 項支持限制，有的算 44 項通過加上 2 項票數領先。差別在於諮詢性投票算不算、以及截稿時部分選票還沒開完，這張圖自己也標明是 11 月 6 日的非官方結果。
但所有版本都落在同一個結論上：只有北達科他州 Harwood 這一個地方投給了資料中心。
比輸贏更值得看的是幅度。多數案子的反對比例落在六成到八成八之間，橫軸上幾乎沒有貼著五成那條虛線的，俄亥俄州一口氣有十幾個案子全部過半反對。這種分布不像是臨時動員催出來的，比較像既有的共識被放上選票而已。
要補一個但書。地方公投多半管不到真正的卡點，電網併網排隊和租稅減免是在州政府與公用事業主管機關手上，一場鎮級投票擋不掉一座園區。它改變的比較可能是價碼：開發商之後要談的回饋金、用水條件和電費分攤，會比去年貴。
資料來源：Redbud Consulting 與資料中心公投追蹤網站的統計，另比對 Ballotpedia、Route Fifty 與 Stateline 的獨立計票（圖片來自 @acemaxx）
Data Centres Lost Almost Every Local Ballot on Election Day
In the local votes held on 3 November, measures involving data centres lost almost everywhere. This chart counts 47 of them, with 46 going against the industry.
Different trackers reach different totals. One counts 40 of 41 measures favouring restrictions; another counts 44 passed with two more leading. The differences come down to whether advisory votes are included and how much of the count was finished, and the chart itself is labelled as unofficial results as of 6 November.
Every version lands in the same place, though: Harwood, North Dakota was the only place that voted in favour.
The margins matter more than the win-loss record. Most measures drew between 60% and 88% against, and almost none sit close to the 50% line. Ohio alone contributed more than a dozen, all of them past a majority. That distribution does not look like a turnout push. It looks like an existing consensus that finally appeared on a ballot.
One caveat is worth adding. Local ballots mostly do not touch the real bottlenecks. Grid interconnection queues and tax abatements sit with state governments and utility regulators, and a township vote will not stop a campus on its own. What it probably changes is the price: the community payments, water terms and grid-cost sharing developers negotiate next will cost more than last year's.
Source: tallies from Redbud Consulting and a data-centre ballot tracker, cross-checked against independent counts from Ballotpedia, Route Fifty and Stateline (Image: @acemaxx)