Data center builders met after the midterms. Here's what they said.

Business Insider · Truman Dickerson · 2026-11-06 09:50 UTC

Data centers took an across-the-board drubbing in the midterm elections on Tuesday. Data center builders, meanwhile, were playing pickleball.

While data centers were taking it on the chin in Tuesday's midterm elections, the people building them were playing pickleball at a conference in Virginia.

And they weren't exactly reacting constructively to the news.

"Suddenly we have protesters and people saying four-letter words about us," Jeff Wabik, the chief technology officer at DC BLOX, a data center developer based in Atlanta, said of common complaints about the centers, like their noise.

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