By Amy Miller ( October 30, 2026, 21:15 GMT | Comment) -- Data centers have become an unexpected political flashpoint ahead of the US midterm elections, with Democrats spending millions of dollars attacking Republicans over rising electricity bills, corporate tax breaks and the environmental costs of the AI boom. Growing public opposition has turned data centers into a political liability, forcing Republican candidates to distance themselves from an industry championed by the Trump administration. Now candidates from Ohio to Michigan and Wisconsin are scrambling to convince voters they will protect their communities from the costs of data center development.In Ohio’s neck-and-neck US Senate race, supporters of Democrat Sherrod Brown have spent millions of dollars painting his Republican opponent, Senator Jon Husted, as the “face of data centers.”...
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