{"id":85707,"date":"2026-08-23T09:23:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T13:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85707"},"modified":"2026-08-23T09:23:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T13:23:26","slug":"huge-backlash-to-data-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/huge-backlash-to-data-centers\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge Backlash To Data Centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From The New York Times:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-12m5bll evys1bk0\">The fight over data centers is suddenly at the epicenter of the midterm elections.\u00a0One new ad in Texas begins with someone typing into a chatbot, \u201cWhy is my electric bill going up?\u201d Another in Ohio blames one of the state\u2019s Republican senators for a proliferation of data centers, calling them \u201ca total scam.\u201d And in top House battlegrounds in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, the Democratic challengers are all running ads against the server warehouses powering the artificial intelligence boom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-12m5bll evys1bk0\">Data centers have become unlikely fault-lines in the broader fight over an A.I. revolution that is remaking the global economy and threatening to disrupt the job market. Now politicians are racing to tap into the backlash \u2014 or inoculate themselves \u2014 as political strategists in both parties described the issue as an unusually fast-moving force that is already reshaping races for the House, the Senate and governor\u2019s mansions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The New York Times: The fight over data centers is suddenly at the epicenter of the midterm elections.\u00a0One new.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85707","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85708,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85707\/revisions\/85708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}