Last week’s midterms may not have cowed Donald Trump, but they should be a wake-up call for the grinning tech broligarchs who lined up at his inauguration two chaotic years ago.(上周的中期选举或许没有吓倒特朗普，但应该给那些两年前在混乱就职典礼上排队站台的科技兄弟寡头敲响警钟。)
上周的中期选举或许没有吓倒唐纳德·特朗普，但对于两年前在他混乱的就职典礼上排队站台的、笑容满面的科技兄弟寡头们来说，这应该是一记警钟。
Clearly, the cost of living squeeze(挤压，压力) unleashed(释放，引发) by Trump’s war in Iran was a big driver of the Democrat wave. But AI was also on the ballot(在选票上，付诸表决) – in many places, literally.
显然，特朗普对伊朗的战争所引发的的生活成本压力是民主党浪潮的一大推动因素。但AI也被列入了选票——在许多地方，是字面意义上的。
Dozens of measures(措施，提案) calling for(要求，呼吁) limits on datacentre expansion were passed. And elsewhere, reining in(控制，约束) the unchecked(未受制约的) expansion of the power-hungry(耗电巨大的) mega-sheds(巨型仓库) was a rallying cry(战斗口号).
数十项要求限制数据中心扩张的提案获得通过。在其他地方，遏制这些耗电巨大的巨型仓库的无节制扩张，成为一句战斗口号。