Data Centers Emerge as Unlikely Midterm Ad Battleground

A bipartisan backlash against AI infrastructure has turned data centers into a major midterm issue, with more than $31 million in ads mentioning data centers and AI concerns, mostly attacking the infrastructure for raising energy bills and reshaping local communities. Candidates nationwide push moratoriums or stricter rules while tech funders back groups that rarely mention AI themselves, highlighting a shifting political calculus on AI infrastructure across races from Ohio to Wisconsin and Michigan.