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Kevin Hern is already on a glide path to win his Oklahoma Senate race, and a $140 million AI super PAC funded by OpenAI, Palantir and Big Tech venture capitalists is spending $850,000 to back him anyway.
On Fox Business, Speaker Mike Johnson told voters not to believe the backlash against AI data centers — 'This is a Chinese psyop. I really believe that. That's not a conspiracy theory.' Nearly two-thirds of Americans oppose one in their own community, and Big Tech is putting $62 billion into data centers in his home state.
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Jon Husted claims Sherrod Brown "voted to close down 23 power plants" and turned Ohio into an energy importer.
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South Dakota Senator Mike Rounds is writing the Senate's rules on artificial intelligence while taking handouts from the Big Tech companies he's supposed to be regulating.
Husted told an energy summit that Brown 'voted to close down 23 power plants' and turned Ohio from an electricity exporter into an importer. Cleveland.com checked: Congress doesn't vote to close plants, and Ohio has imported power in 63 of the last 65 years.
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Bruce Westerman told Arkansans that Big Tech data centers get a bad rap and will actually lower electric bills.
Westerman told Arkansans data centers get a 'bad rap' and that the Public Service Commission needs to be 'on their A game.' Entergy Arkansas started billing customers in June for three unfinished plants in his own district — one built to feed Google — and 23 electric-power PACs have given him $128,000.
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.