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Data Crunching: “Combining Hinojosa’s victory with those of other Democrats who won gubernatorial races from Georgia to Ohio and Pennsylvania could leave half of proposed AI data center additions across the US vulnerable to stricter local scrutiny and pushback. All of them made more aggressive data center regulation a central part of their campaigns.” Bloomberg (Gift Article): AI Data Center Boom Set for Upheaval After US Election Rout. And from The Atlantic: Americans Really Don’t Like Data Centers.

+ Down for a Count? There are still many races in play. Democrat Scott Colom leads the Mississippi Senate race by 43 votes against Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith. (Colom having a chance in Mississippi was on exactly no one’s bingo card.) Plus, Navy admiral fired by Hegseth flips Mace’s South Carolina seat. By the time she’s sworn in for her job, he may be out of his.

+ Dow for a Count? The market seems to like the election results. Bigly.

+ Out for Blood: “A cyberattack on several blood banks sought to raise temperatures to extremely high levels but was thwarted before it could do any damage to blood products or samples, French authorities said.” I covered this last week. AI-powered hackers are out to be destructive just to destroy things. Teach a Man to Phish.

+ A Colonel of Truth? “Thanat Tantinam, a colorectal surgeon in Thailand, knows a lot of things from his medical training, like the ins and outs of the human digestive system, or bowel cancer rates. But also: Never eat Kentucky Fried Chicken at work. Since he was a medical student, around a decade ago, the American fast food franchise has been the subject of an odd superstition among Thai doctors, many of whom believe that eating its chicken at work will lead to intolerably busy shifts.” NYT (Gift Article): Why Doctors in Thailand Fear KFC.