Doug Jones pointed at Tuberville's Senate financial disclosures and asked whether Alabama's likely next governor personally profits from data centers. The disclosures show a China critic who traded a Chinese AI giant's stock and options, and broke the STOCK Act reporting it.
The House version of the 2025 budget bill said no state or local government may enforce any law regulating AI systems for 10 years. James voted for it on the floor and three separate times in the Energy and Commerce Committee. Now he is running for governor on local control.
Ben and Felicia Horowitz gave Better Nevada PAC $1 million on May 11. Lombardo posted his support for data centers on May 14. On May 21 the wife of Switch's founder gave another $1 million. He wrote in June that data centers raise water use and power bills, but 'it isn't happening in Nevada.'
On Monday, Trump answered the seven in ten Americans who don't want a data center near them by telling them they're choosing to be poor. Thirteen months earlier he had signed the executive order that hands those data centers federal land, skipped environmental reviews and taxpayer-backed loans.
Applied Digital owns 1,300 acres in Brookwood and won't say whether it's building a data center there. On August 7 it wrote Tuberville's campaign a $25,000 check. The town's own mayor has signed a non-disclosure agreement, so residents can't find out either.
Texas added $1 to every car insurance policy to fight catalytic converter theft. A board Abbott appoints spent at least $30 million of it on AI cameras that log where Texans drive. Abbott stopped it Thursday night — the night before the Tribune published.
An AI super PAC that raised $125 million exists to stop states and cities from enforcing their own AI rules. One of these Republicans wrote the bill that does the preempting, one was promised $850,000 in a race he had already won, two were buying the stock, and one was carried by $2.35 million in outside money.
The EPA plans to eliminate the federal requirement that states notify the public and take comment when industrial air-pollution permits are filed. It has also proposed letting developers start building data centers before permits are approved.
In May 2025, 215 House Republicans voted for a ten-year ban on states and towns enforcing any law that limits AI — data centers included. Four of the fourteen named here voted for it four separate times. Now they are campaigning on letting your town decide.
