News

MAGA is Ruining America

Kelly Ayotte Signed a Law Freeing Off-Grid Power Companies From Utility Oversight. She Used to Sit on the Board of One. Her Old Shares Would Be Worth About $1 Million.

Kelly Ayotte Signed a Law Freeing Off-Grid Power Companies From Utility Oversight. She Used to Sit on the Board of One. Her Old Shares Would Be Worth About $1 Million.

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.

Nebraska Data Centers Collected $836 Million in Tax Breaks Under the Law Pete Ricketts Signed. His Own Republican Successor Had to Shut Them Off.

Nebraska Data Centers Collected $836 Million in Tax Breaks Under the Law Pete Ricketts Signed. His Own Republican Successor Had to Shut Them Off.

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.

Michael Whatley Says Data Center Opposition 'Isn't Organic' and Backs Tax Breaks for Them. Executives at a Data Center Owner Gave Him $27,000.

Michael Whatley Says Data Center Opposition 'Isn't Organic' and Backs Tax Breaks for Them. Executives at a Data Center Owner Gave Him $27,000.

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.