honestly at this point it's pretty condescending for people to keep insisting ai data center opposition is about perceptions of AI when the polling data shows it's overwhelmingly environmental, quality of life, and cost of water/energy concerns
Ohio governor's race: Vivek Ramaswamy spent nearly $700,000 leasing private jets for campaign events, including a data center conference in Utah https://t.co/3UcWOFB6yW
Ohio governor's race: Vivek Ramaswamy spent nearly $700,000 leasing private jets for campaign events, including a data center conference in Utah https://t.co/3UcWOFB6yW
We’ve got exclusive new polling on local data center development at @heatmap_news.
Over the past year, we’ve asked Americans whether they would support or oppose a data center being built near where they live.
We haven’t changed the wording. When we first polled the question a year ago, Americans were split 43-42 on support/oppose.
When we asked again in Feb, a bare majority opposed data centers.
Today, 75% of Americans say they would oppose a data center being built near where they live, and 61% said they would “strongly oppose” such a proposal.
It’s a swift, massive shift in US public opinion on a scale that I wouldn’t have once thought possible. More details, including the party ID & rural/urban breakdown, in my new story: https://t.co/AqEtOPkp8K
FirstEnergy spent $3.5 million to elect Jon Husted while carrying out the biggest public corruption scheme in Ohio history.
Husted led the push for a billion-dollar taxpayer-funded bailout of the company and now Ohioans are paying thousands more on their utility bills.
#OHPol: "Husted led the charge for a billion-dollar bailout and cost you thousands on your electricity."
Sherrod Brown is up with a new #OHSen ad. The general election is currently the contest with the most future reservations.
OH Senate future reservations:
🔴$85.3M🔵$78.6M
Our electric bills keep climbing, and corrupt politicians in Columbus have only made it worse.
They handed FirstEnergy a massive $1.3 Billion taxpayer-funded bailout — then gave them a green light to keep raising your energy rates. Many of those same politicians handed Billions in tax breaks to big data center companies that consume enormous amounts of energy, driving your utility bills even higher.
I opposed the FirstEnergy bailout, and I’m fighting to make sure data centers pay their fair share.
I don’t work for FirstEnergy, and I don’t work for big corporations. I work for you.
NEWS: The Senate GOP campaign arm has sent a memo warning AI companies that backlash to data centers could cost them a critical Senate seat — and turn the industry politically radioactive nationwide
“politicians across the country will take notice”
https://t.co/y6NLOYrHim
Jon Husted gave $2.5 billion in sweetheart tax breaks to giant corporations to bring 226 data centers to Ohio. Now he's blaming you for the higher utility bills they've caused.
In November, that's going to change.
Just listen for yourself: Vivek Ramaswamy dismissed our first responders in the Ohio Association of Professional Fire Fighters as “small” and not “important.”
We already knew that Ramaswamy wants to dismantle unions, but to show this little respect for first responders who put their lives on the line every day is shameful.
Republican City Council President of Marietta on Vivek Ramaswamy: "We will be getting a new governor in 2027. The billionaire candidate lobbying for data centers and calling people advocating for clean water 'whiners' is not the way forward for Ohio."
https://t.co/8fgNiP0C4I