Red Counties Swing Left

A Humans First analysis of election returns in 1,540 counties across 16 states found that counties hosting large data centers shifted 2.2 percentage points further toward Democrats than comparable counties without projects in the 2026 midterms. In deep-red counties, the group also found an additional decline in Republican votes, but cautioned that the findings show an association and cannot prove data centers caused the shift. The group identified 114 proposed projects in 92 deep-red counties, while Ballotpedia reported that voters backed restrictions or rejected supportive measures in 46 of 47 local data-center ballot measures.

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