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Miranda Nazzaro of The Hill reports: “Political backlash to data centers is putting gubernatorial candidates in the hot seat as the presence of the massive AI infrastructure becomes a flash point in races up and down the ballot.

Incumbent governors and hopeful challengers are forced to wrestle with Americans’ growing concerns around artificial intelligence, along with fears about energy prices and land use driven by data center construction.

Data centers, the sprawling buildings that can be used to power AI models and systems along with other technologies, are one of the only tangible signs of AI’s rapid development…”

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