A TechCrunch Equity podcast episode discusses what the midterm elections mean for tech, after voters rejected dozens of data center ballot measures and elected politicians including Texas governor-elect Gina Hinojosa who campaigned on restricting them. Sean O'Kane says Elon Musk's half-billion dollars in Republican donations bought basically nothing, while Anthony Ha forecasts the next two years will be harder for hyperscalers, and Kirsten Korosec says OpenAI's new compute campus policy drops NDAs and secrecy.