Five weeks after telling a hearing that Ohioans' worries about data centers 'deserve to be taken seriously,' the chairman of the House Energy Subcommittee signed a letter asking the FBI whether foreign adversaries are behind the backlash.
Two super PACs with deliberately vague names — one funded by an Anthropic-backed nonprofit, one by Coinbase and Ripple — put more than $2.1 million behind a first-time candidate in San Antonio. Their ads never mentioned AI or crypto. His website did.
Leading the Future — funded by Andreessen Horowitz, OpenAI's president and Palantir's co-founder — exists to stop states and cities from writing their own AI rules. It's running ads for Hern from before his primary through November. Meanwhile Oklahoma City, Edmond, Broken Arrow and Luther are all pausing data centers.
In a June letter, Arkansas's junior senator conceded that Americans have 'valid concerns' about data centers driving up energy costs — and in the same breath asked the DOJ to open a foreign-agent investigation into the groups organizing against them.
A Democrat toured 15 Pennsylvania counties and heard about data centers more than anything else. Meanwhile all ten of the state's Republicans in the U.S. House voted for a ten-year ban on states enforcing their own AI rules, nine of them voted for a law projected to push power bills higher, and Harrisburg's $2 billion tax break for data centers is still on the books.
Cleveland.com says both of his opponents had already released platforms while Ramaswamy relied on attack ads — until it refused to stop asking. He has never held elected office.
Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller says Abbott's data center crackdown is 'smoke and mirrors,' that he's never gotten a meeting with the Governor in 12 years, and that other Republicans are staying quiet because they're scared of Abbott's $105 million war chest.
Garrity accuses Shapiro of a 'massive flip-flop' on data centers. Her own record: 'We need to deregulate,' 'Ohio is kicking our butt,' and a pause she can't explain — 'We pause for as long as we need the pause.'
PolitiFact rated Donalds' claim about Florida's new data center law Half True: it directs a process, not a result, and it doesn't cover rural co-ops or municipal utilities at all. Meanwhile the backers of four Florida data center projects have given him $894,000.