Shashank Joshi
@shashj
Washington bureau chief, The Economist. Formerly defence editor. Signal: shashank.96
- "When voters learn that modern data centers recycle water and reuse it for up to a decade, support swings by a net +31 points, the strongest result in three waves of polling."
- "A new poll from Data for Progress finds that a majority of voters (63%), including 67% of Democrats, 66% of Independents, and 58% of Republicans, support pausing the construction of AI data centers for at least one year." dataforprogress.org/blog/2026/6/23… (from June)
- "The median non-supporter [of data centers] wants $10,000 to change their mind. A tax rebate paid out to every resident of a median-sized county would cost a total of $240 million." nationalsecurity.virginia.edu/sites/default/…
