Aug 21, 2026

Mike Rogers Holds Up to $2.6 Million in Companies That Stand to Gain From the AI Build-Out. Days After That Came Out, He Called for a Moratorium.

A Lever investigation found Rogers holds $1.7 to $2.6 million in companies positioned to profit from the AI build-out, including a stake in a Blackstone trust that is 29 percent data centers while Blackstone helps build a $16 billion data center near Ann Arbor. In March he endorsed Trump's plan to speed up data center permitting. On August 20 he called for a one-year moratorium.

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Aug 20, 2026

Your Town Fought a Data Center. Seven Republicans Decided You Might Be Working for China.

71% of Americans don't want a data center near them. Rather than answer them, these members asked the FBI and the Justice Department to investigate who's funding the opposition — while researchers who actually looked for a Chinese campaign said: 'We haven't found much.'

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Aug 20, 2026

Jon Husted Told Ohioans Their Electric Bills Are Their Own Fault. His Own Party's Memo Calls His Data Center Record an 'Anchor.'

A leaked National Republican Senatorial Committee memo warns that data centers are an 'anchor' around Husted's campaign and begs AI companies to fix their image. Ohio's data center tax break cost the state $1.57 billion last year — eleven times the projection.

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Aug 16, 2026

Tom Tiffany Says He'd End Data Center Subsidies. The Only Lobbyist for Wisconsin's Data Center Coalition Gave Him $5,000.

Tiffany is attacking David Crowley over data centers while taking money from the industry's registered lobbyist — and the coalition that lobbyist works for fought the exact NDA ban and tax change Tiffany now says he supports.

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Aug 15, 2026

71% of Americans Don't Want a Data Center Next Door. Derrick Van Orden and Tim Burchett Blame China.

Derrick Van Orden says data center opposition comes 'from the Chinese companies' who are 'paying people to say this stuff.' NPR went looking for the evidence. Researchers tracking foreign influence said: 'We haven't found much.'

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Aug 15, 2026

Trump's EPA Approved Two Chemicals It Admits It Can't Assess. You're Not Allowed to Know Their Names.

The Sierra Club and CHIPS Communities United sued the EPA over approvals for two new semiconductor chemicals. The agency's own consent orders identify acute toxicity, genetic toxicity and reproductive harm, name acute lethality as the primary concern for the chemical class, and say there are insufficient data to assess the risk — and the chemicals' identities are a trade secret.

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Aug 14, 2026

Tommy Tuberville Asks ChatGPT About Medicare While He Drives Across Alabama. "You Don't Know Whether or Not They're 100 Percent Correct."

A Washington Post investigation found lawmakers outsourcing their work to chatbots with almost no oversight. Tuberville uses ChatGPT on policy. Anna Paulina Luna's office shipped an amendment summary with 'Claude responded:' still in it. Mike Flood asked a bot about housing.

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Aug 11, 2026

A Data Center Wanted to Expand Next to a Drinking Water Reservoir in His District. Nine Days Later, Mike Lawler Went on TV to Say the Rules Are the Problem.

Orangetown's planning board unanimously halted a data center expansion near the Lake Tappan reservoir. New York then paused permits statewide. Lawler's response was a Fox Business hit about innovation and China — and he had already voted for a bill that would have banned states from writing AI rules at all.

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Aug 11, 2026

Three Counties in Brett Guthrie's District Voted to Slow Down Data Centers. He Chairs the Committee That Could Actually Help Them.

Breckinridge and Daviess counties passed moratoriums. Meade County killed a project after 3,000 people signed a petition. Guthrie's answer was a bill that only asks states to think about it — and a request that the FBI look into who's behind the opposition.

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