Wired found outside groups — mostly a super PAC funded through Andreessen Horowitz — have spent about $600,000 backing Mike Rounds, and he's taken roughly $215,000 more straight from employees and PACs of AI labs and other tech companies. Rounds co-wrote the Senate's AI roadmap, and AI executives see him as 'a top supporter of the industry.'
Ramaswamy's own Ohio ethics filing lists stock in the companies that make the chips, run the servers and own the land behind the data center boom. As governor he'd appoint the boards that hand out their tax breaks and approve their power plants. Asked whether he'd sell, he didn't answer.
Texas has 655 data centers operating, planned or under construction, and its counties can't require one to keep its distance from a house. A new Berkeley study finds homes within a mile lose 7.2% of their value. Abbott promised setbacks in June and says legislators need more information first.
Trump told communities that turning down a data center means choosing to be poor. A new UC Berkeley study of 346 large data centers found that homes within 3 miles lost about 3% of their value, homes within a mile lost 7.2%, and the local costs outweighed the local benefits.
The Bureau of Land Management asked its state directors to identify public land 'ripe for data center development' and gave them three days. It has shed nearly half its workforce under Trump, one state reported 50% vacancies in the offices that would do the reviews, and the administration is proposing further cuts while telling the bureau to refocus on AI.
Bresnahan's new Scranton-area ad casts him as the man standing between Northeastern Pennsylvania and the data center industry. His August disclosure lists between roughly $804,024 and $2.04 million in the chipmakers and equipment suppliers that industry runs on — and last year he called data centers 'catalysts for economic growth.'
In 2021, as director of Ohio's Governor's Office of Workforce Transformation, Husted told a county chamber of commerce that repetitive jobs 'are going away' and would 'be replaced by robots.' He said he didn't think that was bad, because those jobs weren't 'enriching.'
Texas ranks 40th of 50 on the measures we track, with the second-worst food insecurity and second-worst women's health scores in the country. Greg Abbott signed the abortion ban and the school voucher law, never expanded Medicaid, and now runs on affordability after property tax levies rose to $89.4 billion and home insurance premiums rose 79%. Here is the record, and what each of the seventeen Republicans running for reelection has been busy with.
The search was requested by the woman's abusive partner. An AI-drafted passage of the police report notes deputies knew there was no crime to charge her with. Flock's CEO told police customers the family had asked out of concern for her safety. The records say otherwise.
