任何对科技感兴趣的人今晚都会盯着电视或社交媒体，关注中期选举。如我的同事Shane Burke下文所述，超过20名州长选举候选人支持暂停数据中心开发。还有加州亿万富翁税——提案40——值得关注。但对于担忧选举结果的科技界人士，请记住：今晚发生的任何事情都不会改变我们目前拥有的宽松反垄断环境。这要归功于特朗普政府，而非国会。
Anyone with an interest in tech will be glued to the TV or social media tonight, monitoring the midterm elections. As my colleague Shane Burke writes below, more than 20 candidates in state governor races support a moratorium on data center development. There’s also the California billionaire tax, Proposition 40, to track. But for those in tech fretting about the results, remember this: Nothing that happens tonight will change the relaxed antitrust regime we’ve got right now. That’s thanks to the Trump administration, not Congress.
这意味着，在反垄断环境可能发生变化之前，公司还有两年时间完成交易。这就是为什么最近的科技交易场景类似于那个老式的“超市大扫除”电视游戏节目，参赛者在超市货架上抢东西的时间有限。我们已经看到Marvell和Lumentum周一的交易，上周DoorDash和Instacart的交易，6月Fox和Roku的交易，以及许多其他交易。这不仅仅是科技领域（想想Skydance和华纳兄弟探索公司）。根据Dealogic的数据，迄今为止今年宣布的交易总额达2.6万亿美元，比去年同期增长66%。
And that means companies have got two more years to get deals done before the antitrust climate could change. That's why the tech deal scene lately has resembled that old “Supermarket Sweep” TV game show where contestants have a limited amount of time to grab stuff off the shelves in a supermarket. We’ve seen deals such as Marvell and Lumentum on Monday, DoorDash and Instacart last week, Fox and Roku in June and many others. It’s not just tech, either (think Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery). Overall, deals worth $2.6 trillion have been announced so far this year, according to Dealogic, 66% more than at this time last year.