Musk, after his candidates lost, says datacenters in space look appealing

Elon Musk, the midterm cycle's top megadonor at more than $400 million for Republicans, broke his election-night silence after 1 a.m. Eastern with two jokes on X: “Guess my election-interfering space lasers didn't work this time,” followed by “Data centers in space looking pretty appealing right now.”

The posts landed as networks projected Democrats taking both the House and the Senate, with Tesla and SpaceX shares each falling more than 4 percent in premarket trading. In Musk's home state of Texas, Governor Greg Abbott lost, and data-center ballot initiatives lost across the country.

The space line is a shrug, not an announcement — but it is the coda to the lead story's poll. The voters who told pollsters they would oppose a data center in their own town have now voted that way, and the man who spent the most to stop the wave is joking about leaving the planet.