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If America Doesn’t Want Data Centers, Where Will They Go?
There are few political topics that Governors Kathy Hochul and Greg Abbott would likely agree on....
From ‘all in’ to tap the brakes: Gov. Josh Shapiro redefines Pennsylvania’s tech boom
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GOP Privately Warns AI Companies About Data Centers Hurting Them in Midterms: ‘Issue Will Continue to Dominate This Race’
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“A deal with the devil”: Religion motivates data center opponents in Texas
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The Data Center Protests Looked Typical. They Were Anything But.
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Everyday Americans are fighting to take down data centers
Rural Ohioans are trying to put the future of hyper-scale data centers on the ballot, and...
It Took a While, but Americans May Have Found Something We All Hate
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This Data Center Is Everything That Everyone Hates About AI
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Democrats Are Missing a Huge Opportunity to Win Working-Class Voters
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How Opposing Data Centers Can Save Democracy
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US’s Anthropic order exposes EU’s AI dependency
Washington's export controls on Anthropic spark renewed calls for Europe to accelerate development...
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The Candidate Who Wants to Ban Data Centers: ‘This Screams Financial Crisis’
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