The Growing Political Power of Anti-Data Center Activists

Tech industry lobbying and campaign donations have proved effective in recent years. In 2024, I wrote about crypto’s successful efforts to get many candidates to support pro-crypto stances. But while the AI industry is putting an avalanche of money into races, the results so far have been different, partially because so many people from so many different backgrounds and ideologies hate data centers. Gomez says that “all of the efforts of this significant lobby came crumbling down because Arizonans have been dialed into this fight and have