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‘Cost Me the Election’: Data Centers Trigger Voter Backlash

posted by hubie on Sunday June 28, @12:19PM   

owl writes:

https://www.newsweek.com/cost-me-the-election-data-centers-trigger-voter-backlash-12118327

A wave of voter anger over massive data center projects is beginning to reshape U.S. politics, with local officials and senior lawmakers losing elections after backing controversial developments tied to the artificial intelligence boom.

In Utah on Wednesday, State Senate President J. Stuart Adams—one of the most powerful Republicans in the state—lost his primary election after supporting a major data center development near the Great Salt Lake, in one of the clearest signs yet of the growing political risks tied to the industry.

At the local level, the fallout was just as direct. "Do I think that the data center vote cost me the election? Yes I do," former Box Elder County Commissioner Lee Perry said after conceding his primary race, after voting to advance the same project.

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• Re:Hey hey he's a flunkie!(Score: 3, Funny) by Reziac on Monday June 29, @02:35AM

  by Reziac (2489) on Monday June 29, @02:35AM (#1446597) Homepage

  Center for American Progress is a hard-left think tank. They sure as hell didn't recommend any laws that might advantage anyone else.

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  And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.

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