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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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 30, @03:45PM (1 child)
The voters aren't being forced into anything. They just use peer pressure, under a different name, as an excuse. We have primary elections where we can knock the corrupt incumbents off the ballot entirely, but we don't. That's nobody's fault but our own. It's more primal than political.
Anyway, it's nice to see an exception to the rule with these data center whores being kicked out. Let's hope it spreads to other areas.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 07, @03:54AM
OK shepherded then.