TOPEKA — Rep. Brooklynne Mosley never gets a clear answer when she asks proponents of data centers how closely they want to live near one.
That’s because “everyone thinks it’s going to be in someone else’s backyard,” she said.
Across the state, fights are erupting in communities where residents’ concerns about water and electricity usage, noise and air pollution, and the threat of artificial intelligence are met with promises of construction jobs and lucrative property tax collections.
Mosley, a Lawrence Democrat, and Rep. Alexis Simmons, a Topeka Democrat, appeared on the Kansas Reflector podcast to talk about why they embrace
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