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Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo is selling out his state's water and power to Big Tech.
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Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo is selling out his state's water and power to Big Tech.
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Republican Congressman Mike Lawler is siding with Big Tech as it tries to build massive AI data centers next to a drinking water reservoir in New York's Hudson Valley.
Kelly Ayotte now says New Hampshire should pause data centers. Last year she signed a law letting off-grid power companies that serve them skip state utility rules. She was paid $112,500 on the board of one, Bloom Energy, and held shares that would be worth about $1 million today.
Abbott's office insists 'no permits have been approved.' Watchdogs found stormwater approvals, fast-tracked air permits and public notices for data centers starting the day after his order — and the agency suspended the stormwater permits the day after the watchdogs went public.
A Texas Tribune analysis found Greg Abbott has raised about $9 million from data center-related donors since July 2025 — $2.8 million of it, his biggest monthly haul, after he 'paused' the industry. His opponent got one $25,000 check.
On October 14, Tommy Tuberville said he's '100% for data centers,' that they use 'as much water as two McDonald's' and won't raise power prices. Six weeks earlier, his own plan said they must replace the water they take and that Alabama ratepayers need protecting from them.
As governor, Pete Ricketts signed the ImagiNE Nebraska Act. Since 2021, data centers have collected an estimated $836 million in tax breaks under Nebraska's incentives — until Gov. Jim Pillen barred new ones in July to 'protect our land and protect our water.' Ricketts has taken money from the companies and owns AI investments.
Byron Donalds is telling business leaders Florida is 'wide open' and 'pristine.' His own financial disclosure shows up to $390,000 in stocks of companies that profit when those data centers get built.
People at KKR — co-owner of CyrusOne, which runs a data center campus in Research Triangle Park and is building another near Sanford — gave North Carolina's Republican Senate nominee $27,000, including $5,000 from co-founder Henry Kravis. Whatley says data centers should get tax breaks but not subsidies.