From Jonathan Weber's Newcomer newsletter of October 30, 2026, on tech's political bets in the midterms. The passage appears in a rundown of races where data centers are an issue.
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Editor at Large for Newcomer, author of upcoming book on San Francisco in the tech era. Previously editor in chief of the SF Standard, the Bay Citizen & the Industry Standard, global tech editor at Reuters.
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Jonathan Weber writes Newcomer and writes Wired . They have also been a guest on Newcomer Pod (2 times) and GeekWire .
Recently: “Big Tech Defied Tradition With a Risky Bet on Trump. It’s Not Looking Like a Winner.” on Newcomer (October 2026); “Anthropic’s Pending IPO Has Silicon Valley on the Edge of Its Seat” on Newcomer (October 2026); “Investors Turn on Data Center Builders as Rising Interest Rates Dampen the AI Trade” on Newcomer (October 2026); “Competing ARR Estimates & Fuzzy Valuation Math in the Spotlight as Markets Get Edgy” on Newcomer (October 2026); “Seattle and San Francisco: Big tech, political backlash and the AI boom” on GeekWire (October 2026); “Agents Promise to Remake the Web. As Instinct & Muse Take Off, We’ll Begin to See How it Looks.” on Newcomer (September 2026).
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