New Delhi, Nov. 4 -- Tesla CEO Elon Musk has responded to the sweeping Democratic victories in the 2026 US midterm elections. Musk, a Trump ally and the largest individual donor in the US midterm elections, said in an X post, "Guess my election-interfering space lasers didn't work this time."

As the blue wave became clear, Musk had earlier posted on X, saying, "Data centers in space looking pretty appealing right now," in an apparent reference to possible delays in the construction of data centers, including in Texas, where Gina Hinojosa has been elected as the first Democratic governor of the Lone Star State.

Throughout her campaign, Hinojosa repeatedly called for an immediate moratorium on data centre development. She had also vowed t...