包括许多反对数据中心产业的候选人。 结果让科技行业的一些角落寻找答案
最近数小时，数据中心爱好者在社交媒体上宣称，相反，他们说，现在是专注于空间数据中心的时候了。
支持共和党候选人的4亿多美元下沉，Musk在周三凌晨张贴在X
约旦 Lasker — — X帐户“Crémieux ” 幕后黑手，是科技界的热门追随者，他以张贴基于种族的伪科学而著称 — — 也评论道，“ 空间数据中心是一个不可思议的想法，任何怀疑它们的人对今晚的选举结果没有足够思考。 ”
整个白天，穆斯克员工，技术投资者，AI研究人员，风险投资家，以及业界粉丝都加入了支持天基数据中心的合唱团。 Soham Mehta是美国创新技术最乐观智库基金会的研究员，认为水下数据中心也应予以考虑。 (6月，中国开始运营声称是世界上第一个水下数据中心。 )
有些公司已经试图在轨道上计算。 其中包括Google，称的一颗卫星发布载有“数据中心级TPU”，以及SpaceX，称的目的是“从2027年末开始部署数千颗AI卫星”。 Blue Origin也参与其中，已经向发布 5万颗卫星申请联邦通信委员会许可，这些卫星将构成“轨道数据中心系统”。
还有几家初创公司致力于在空间中建立数据中心，包括Starcloud，声称于2025年11月将"第一个NVIDIA H100 GPU载入轨道".
尽管在技术上是可能的，但在轨数据中心的现实情况是困难的。 太空数据中心比陆地数据中心昂贵得多，无法发展到超规模
在德克萨斯数据中心，专家们告诉WIRED，领导权的改变可以转化为该行业的某些具体变化——尽管有限度。
虽然民主党控制得克萨斯州众议院，但共和党人仍然控制着该州的参议院。 德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的土地使用和环境规划教授罗伯特·佩特森(Robert Paterson)告诉WIRED，这种分裂意味着一些即时的改变尝试“可能有点受阻 ”。
亚德里安而非盈利消费者宣传团体Public Citizen的德克萨斯办事处主任Shelley告诉WIRED，立法机关很可能会推行像重新分配国家机构资源这样的高影响力政策。 然而，他新增认为，州长可以通过发布行政命令，或要求国家机构政治任命官员辞职，从而实现更直接的变革。
这些监督机构，如德克萨斯州环境质量委员会、公共公用事业委员会和德克萨斯州水开发委员会，有权对违反州法的罚款，或在极端情况下，有权吊销数据中心等项目的许可证。 但德克萨斯州开发商拥有特别强大的“已确认权利”
另一条重塑德克萨斯州数据中心产业的中期路线可能是给予其县更多的权力。 佩特森指出，该州近一半的数据中心都位于未建制的领土上，这使得它们不属于城市分区法的管辖范围。
与其他州不同的是，佩特森称，德克萨斯州各县的执法能力相对有限。 根据该州所谓的迪隆统治，各县只有"州专门分配给它的权力". 因此，虽然他们拥有对诸如进入和进入县公路，或者在洪泛平原上建造等事物的权威，但他的称没有分区权威来帮助严密管理数据中心等项目。
Paterson 称认为，新任总检察长理论上可以调整州半年制手册中的条款，该手册规定了县权力的限度。 尤其因为反数据中心情绪跨越党派界线，州立法者可以提出可行的法案
Shelley告诉WIRED，由于数据中心是这场蓝色浪潮的决定性因素
“我会说，数据中心行业对与州立法者或地方领导人合作没有表现出很大的兴趣，” 雪莱·称，“我会有兴趣看看这是否会改变。
如果不是，总是有低地球轨道。
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A wave of Democratic candidates across the country—and notably in Texas, a national data center hotspot and home to Elon Musk’s SpaceX—won their state and congressional races on Tuesday, including many candidates who voiced opposition to the data center industry. The results have sent some corners of the tech industry looking to the heavens for answers.
In recent hours, data center enthusiasts have proclaimed on social media that they’re still “bullish” on building data centers—just not necessarily in Texas, or even on Earth at all. Instead, they say, it’s time to focus on data centers in space.
Elon Musk—who sank more than $400 million of his fortune supporting Republican candidates who all went on to lose their midterms races—has been among those leading the charge. “Data centers in space looking pretty appealing right now,” Musk posted on X in the early hours of Wednesday, after it was clear that Democrats had taken the House and Senate.
Jordan Lasker—the man behind the X account "Crémieux,” which is a popular follow in the tech world, and known for posting race-based pseudoscience—also weighed in, saying, “Data centers in space are an incredible idea and anyone who doubted them didn't think enough about tonight's election results.”
Throughout the day, Musk employees, tech investors, AI researchers, venture capitalists, and industry fans joined the chorus of support for space-based data centers. Soham Mehta, a research fellow at the techno-optimist think tank Foundation for American Innovation, argued that underwater data centers should also be considered. (In June, China began operating what it claims is the world’s first underwater data center.)
Some companies are already trying to put compute in orbit. Among them are Google, which launched a satellite that it says contains "data center class TPU,” and SpaceX, which says it aims to deploy “thousands of AI satellites starting as soon as late 2027.” Blue Origin is also in the mix, having filed for a Federal Communications Commission permit to launch 50,000 satellites that will constitute an “orbital data center system.”
There are also a few startups aiming to build data centers in space, including Starcloud, which claims to have carried "the first NVIDIA H100 GPU into orbit" in November 2025.
Despite being technically possible, the realities of in-orbit data centers are difficult. Among other things, space-based data centers are much more expensive than land-based ones, can’t grow to hyperscale size, and are subject to the risks and whims of satellite launches.
When it comes to Texas data centers, the concerns of tech bros aren’t completely unfounded. Experts tell WIRED that the change in leadership could translate to some concrete changes in the industry—albeit with limits.
Although Democrats have control of the Texas House, Republicans still have control over the state’s senate. Robert Paterson, professor of land use and environmental planning at the University of Texas at Austin, tells WIRED that the split means that some immediate attempts at change “will probably be stymied a bit.”
Adrian Shelley, director of nonprofit consumer advocacy group Public Citizen’s Texas office, tells WIRED that the legislature would be a likely place to hash out high-impact policies like the reallocation of state agency resources. However, he adds that the governor could effect more immediate changes by issuing executive orders, or requesting the resignation of politically appointed officials in state agencies.
Shelley says that these oversight agencies—such as the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the Public Utility Commission, and the Texas Water Development Board—have the authority to charge fines for breaking state law, or in extreme cases, to revoke permits for projects like data centers. But Paterson notes that Texas developers have particularly strong “vested rights,” which protects the terms of their projects from the moment their permits are approved, even if construction hasn’t begun yet.
Another medium-term route to reshaping Texas's data center industry could be giving more power to its counties. Paterson noted that nearly half of the state’s data centers exist in unincorporated territory, which puts them outside the jurisdiction of city zoning laws.
Unlike other states, Paterson says, Texas counties have relatively limited enforcement abilities. Under the state's so-called Dillon's Rule, counties only have powers that are “specifically allotted to it by the state.” So while they have authority over things like access and egress to county roads, or construction on floodplains, he says they don't have the zoning authority that would help closely regulate projects like data centers.
Paterson says that the new attorney general could theoretically adjust the terms in the state’s biannual handbook, which establishes the limits of county authority. He also argues that even in a split legislature, especially since anti-data center sentiment crosses party lines, state lawmakers could propose a viable bill giving counties “limited zoning authority over data centers."
Shelley tells WIRED that since “data centers were a decisive factor in this blue wave,” the upcoming legislative season will be “very interesting.”
“I will say the data center industry hasn't shown a lot of interest in working with state lawmakers or local leaders,” Shelley says, “and I will be interested to see if that changes.”
If not, there’s always low-Earth orbit.
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