Democrats want voters to see data centers as giant outposts of megacorporations that enjoy undue tax breaks and ill-begotten monstrosities that suck up precious water and hog electricity. After months ...

Welcome to the first edition of Power Play! From now until the midterms, senior writer Molly Taft will be sharing their thoughts every Sunday on this political season’s hottest issue: data centers. We ...

Trump's pro-data center stance is out of step with voters. Republicans are trying to navigate the issue but it's putting them at odds with the president's AI agenda. The backlash against AI data ...

LANSING — Republican President Donald Trump touted data centers and criticized their opposition in a social media post on Aug. 31, hours before his vice president, JD Vance, was scheduled to speak in ...

One of the largest pro-AI groups involved in the midterm elections announced a new effort Monday aimed at shifting public opinion on data centers as they have become a flashpoint in the battle for ...

According to a recent poll from Heatmap Pro, 75 percent of Americans "would oppose a new data center being built near where they live." And as the responses from a March Gallup poll show, opponents of ...

As public pushback to data centers boils over, politicians on both sides of the aisle are racing to distance themselves from the controversial facilities. Key swing state candidates are scrambling to ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

Plans for a 26-megawatt data center that surfaced in Allen Park, Michigan, last year quickly ignited a groundswell of opposition from residents in the small, working-class Detroit suburb. As in dozens ...

The calls to stop data center growth in the data center capital of the world are getting louder as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle get behind calls for a statewide moratorium. Some lawmakers said ...

Just days before the Oregon Legislature in March passed a one-year pause on a popular tax incentive program for data centers, a group called Oregon Connects registered as a nonprofit business in the ...

An organization that represents the data center industry is trying to get Georgians to think of the electricity-hungry facilities more favorably. Connected Georgia and its parent organization America ...