‘People really effing hate data centers’: How the AI buildout became the midterms’ affordability issue

“People really effing hate data centers,” Abdul El-Sayed said at a campaign event in July, E&E News reported . On Tuesday, he won Michigan’s Senate race, NBC News projected. El-Sayed was one of many winners Tuesday who made the AI buildout part of their argument about the cost of living. Voters named the cost of living a top issue in AP exit polls. In much of the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic, the clearest way that issue showed up was the monthly electric bill, and candidates in both parties blamed data centers for it.

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