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How data center controversies are transforming the 2026 midterm landscape

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How data center controversies are transforming the 2026 midterm landscape
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The snowballing opposition to data centers in communities across the United States has transformed the midterm election landscape, thrown a wrench into the plans of the world’s richest companies and brought perhaps the industry’s biggest booster, President Donald Trump, to its defense.It’s a dramatic shift from two years ago, when few people had even heard of a data center.But the late 2022 debut of OpenAI’s ChatGPT ignited worldwide demand for chatbots and other generative AI products that typi

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