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Jon Husted is lying to Ohio about your electric bill #maga #ohio #ai #datacenter #affordability
Jon Husted claims Sherrod Brown "voted to close down 23 power plants" and turned Ohio into an energy importer.
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Mike Rounds is writing the Senate's AI rules while Big Tech pays him
South Dakota Senator Mike Rounds is writing the Senate's rules on artificial intelligence while taking handouts from the Big Tech companies he's supposed to be regulating.
Jon Husted Blames Your Electric Bill on Coal Plants Sherrod Brown 'Voted to Close.' Brown Never Voted to Close Any of Them.
Husted told an energy summit that Brown 'voted to close down 23 power plants' and turned Ohio from an electricity exporter into an importer. Cleveland.com checked: Congress doesn't vote to close plants, and Ohio has imported power in 63 of the last 65 years.
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Bruce Westerman is lying about data centers. Your power bill proves it.
Bruce Westerman told Arkansans that Big Tech data centers get a bad rap and will actually lower electric bills.
Bruce Westerman Says Data Centers Could 'Help Lower People's Electric Bills.' Arkansans Started Paying in June for Three Unbuilt Power Plants, One of Them for Google.
Westerman told Arkansans data centers get a 'bad rap' and that the Public Service Commission needs to be 'on their A game.' Entergy Arkansas started billing customers in June for three unfinished plants in his own district — one built to feed Google — and 23 electric-power PACs have given him $128,000.
Mike Rounds Helps Write the Senate's AI Rules. AI Money Has Now Put About $815,000 Into His Reelection Race.
Wired found outside groups — mostly a super PAC funded through Andreessen Horowitz — have spent about $600,000 backing Mike Rounds, and he's taken roughly $215,000 more straight from employees and PACs of AI labs and other tech companies. Rounds co-wrote the Senate's AI roadmap, and AI executives see him as 'a top supporter of the industry.'
Vivek Ramaswamy Would Appoint the Boards That Give Ohio's Data Centers Their Tax Breaks. He Owns NVIDIA, Microsoft and Amazon Stock and Hasn't Said Whether He'd Sell It.
Ramaswamy's own Ohio ethics filing lists stock in the companies that make the chips, run the servers and own the land behind the data center boom. As governor he'd appoint the boards that hand out their tax breaks and approve their power plants. Asked whether he'd sell, he didn't answer.
Texas Has 655 Data Centers Built or Coming. Not One Has to Keep Its Distance From Your House.
Texas has 655 data centers operating, planned or under construction, and its counties can't require one to keep its distance from a house. A new Berkeley study finds homes within a mile lose 7.2% of their value. Abbott promised setbacks in June and says legislators need more information first.
Trump Says Towns That Don't Want Data Centers Want to Be 'Backwards and Poor.' A Berkeley Study Found Data Centers Have Cut Nearby Home Values by $20.6 Billion.
Trump told communities that turning down a data center means choosing to be poor. A new UC Berkeley study of 346 large data centers found that homes within 3 miles lost about 3% of their value, homes within a mile lost 7.2%, and the local costs outweighed the local benefits.