Sullivan lobbied Air Force brass to put Alaska bases on the data center list. Weeks after the Air Force did, seven people tied to Twenty First Century Utilities — a firm planning a giant gas plant and data center on the North Slope — gave $29,000 to his campaign through its joint fundraising committee, FEC records show.
Ohio's senator lives in a Washington house owned by David Lugar, a lobbyist whose clients include Meta — the company building what Politico calls the world's largest data center in Ohio. Husted's office says the rent is 'fair market.' It won't say what the rent is.
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Mike Lawler voted for a federal bill that would have banned local towns and the state of New York from regulating AI data centers for ten years.
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Darline Graham is the very first target of a brand-new super PAC from the toxic data center industry, which just dumped $1.5 million in South Carolina to save her.
Building the Future, a new super PAC aligned with the data center industry, reserved $1.5 million in ads to help Darline Graham keep her South Carolina Senate seat. She has opposed moratoriums on new data centers. The ads talk about her work for blind residents instead — and the PAC hasn't disclosed a single donor.
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Byron Donalds is promising Floridians that massive new AI data centers won't raise our electric bills, but an independent fact check found the state law guarantees no such protection.
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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.