Did anger over data centers lead to Nevada's blue tsunami?

On Election Day, voters in Boulder City overwhelmingly rejected a ballot question that would have allowed data centers on city-owned land in the Eldorado Valley. With nearly 71 percent of voters saying no, opposition to the question outperformed statewide ballot questions about abortion rights and voter ID. But the results also show the issue didn't sort neatly by party. Boulder City's decisive vote came in a town where registered Republicans outnumber Democrats more than 2 to 1, and the same voters comfortably re-elected a mayor who had expressed openness to a data center. Nationally, data center opponents won all but one of 41 local ballot measures last week, according to preliminary tallies. But an analysis by Heatmap, a climate and energy news site, found that communities fighting data centers largely kept voting as they had before. In Conneaut, Ohio, about two-thirds of voters backed a local moratorium while splitting between the two candidates for governor.

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