Cherry Creek News · Colorado Springs, CO
Anthropic priced its IPO on Tuesday: 825 million shares at $70 to $78, trading on Nasdaq as ANT starting November 19, worth up to $1.405 trillion and raising as much as $64.35 billion. One week earlier, voters in ten states went to the polls and rejected data center development in 40 of 41 local ballot measures. Colorado is where that fight is already in the concrete — a one-year moratorium in Denver, a permanent hyperscale ban in Longmont, a ballot fight over a four-year pause in Colorado Springs, and a 27.5-megawatt data center in Weld County that residents are trying to send back to the voters. The most valuable AI lab in the world is about to go public in the middle of a revolt over the physical thing the AI industry actually sells, which is power. Two events, one week, the same problem Neither of these happened in isolation, and the timing is the story. On November 3, voters in ten states decided 41 local ballot measures affecting data center policy.
The Catalyst · Colorado Springs, CO
By: Madeline Louisell (Head Layout Editor) On the evening of Tuesday Nov. 3, supporters of Democratic congressional candidate Jessica Killin packed The Pinery at The Hill, hoping that they would watch the Army veteran make history as the first Democratic congressional candidate elected in Colorado Springs history. Democrat Jessica Killin, a fourth-generation Coloradan, leads the race for Colorado’s 5th Congressional District against Republican incumbent Jeff Crank. A Killin win would mean a landmark victory for Democrats in what has historically been an entirely Republican-dominated district. As of Wednesday afternoon, Killin’s campaign has not yet called the race. The New York Times projected she will beat Crank by a margin of 3.9 points. Both candidates held watch parties in Colorado Springs on election night. Around 9 p.m. on Tuesday, Crank’s campaign told supporters to leave his election watch party, according to The Colorado Sun. Crank did not speak at the event.
The Catalyst · Colorado Springs, CO
By: Peyton Kifer, Yini Zheng (Guest Contributors) Nick, a 28-year-old software engineer, had already gotten three political text messages by the time he dropped off his ballot in Colorado Springs on election day. For the past week, he said, it had been five to 10 a day. “That fiftieth message you sent me really sent me over the edge,” he said rhetorically about the campaigns and those sending messages on their behalf. Nick isn’t the only one upset by a tsunami of political mail and communication leading up to the Midterm elections. Several voters interviewed on Tuesday at a ballot drop-off site off North Union Blvd. agreed that one thing stood out about this campaign season: how much information flooded their phones, TVs, mailboxes and doorsteps. Mack Bekeza, a 32-year-old financial planner, said he got two or three campaign flyers every day. “It’s the same thing,” he said.
The Catalyst · Colorado Springs, CO
Victor Marx is a Christian Republican from Colorado Springs running for governor of Colorado. But he says he is not running to “be an evangelist” or to evangelize the state. “I’m becoming governor to uphold our Constitution and to make our state safe again,” Marx, a high-profile Christian ministry leader and first-time candidate, said during an Oct. 21 virtual press conference for student journalists organized by FoxTalk. He claimed that Colorado’s motto, “Nil Sine Numine,” Latin for “Nothing without Providence or Deity,” is inherently Christian and the Founding Fathers wrote Christianity into the Constitution. The phrase comes from Virgil’s “Aeneid,” an ancient Greek epic poem. Colorado’s first territorial governor chose the motto. Marx faces long-shot odds against Democratic Attorney General Phil Weiser, whom even some high-profile Republicans expect will win handily. Colorado has not elected a Republican governor in 20 years.