United StatesMeta’s new leadership has close ties to the Trump administration.
Voters passed nearly all the data-centre referendums on last week’s US midterm ballots.
Meta created a Meta Compute unit to expand AI infrastructure and hired Republicans and Democrats to lobby for it.
Meta also hired Democrats, including TikTok’s Michael Hacker, a former aide to Representative James Clyburn.
Questions about the projects’ power use, water use and noise remain open.
How each outlet framed it
- netzpolitik.org leans critical
- frames Meta's reshuffle as political access-building, centering new president Dina Powell McCormick's ties to Trump Republicans
Sources: netzpolitik.org