Technology · 09/11/20261 min read

Elon Musk and the tech bros banked on Trump and lost. Humbled, humiliated: what will they do next? | Jonathan Liew

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Democrats won seats on anti-datacentre tickets and Musk wasted nearly half a billion dollars.

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