Data Center Expansion Looms over Midterm Elections

Data center expansion looms over midterm elections

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is part of a special State Affairs series highlighting energy policy dominating state legislative action this year. See the full list of stories here. STERLING, Va. — Some of America’s largest corporations maintain major outposts in the bustling Washington suburbs near Dulles International Airport. Today, as McMansion communities expand ever westward toward the Shenandoah foothills, many of those same companies are cons…

Data Centers Are Already Dominating This Year’s Elections

Data centers are already dominating this year’s elections. As a campaign issue, they’re primed to disrupt races across the country, big and small, right and left. Candidates at every point of the political spectrum are being buried with questions about data centers and artificial intelligence. Interest groups are making data center support a deciding factor in whether they support a given candidate, alongside other boogeymen such as the “green n…