Cabot Phillips

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Morning Wire · Mark Ruffalo Clashes with Hollywood & Data Centers Lose Support | 8.24.26 · 24 Aug 2026 podcast

It was really Democratic politicians who were the first to come out in opposition to these facilities.

Kathy Hokel announced a one-year moratorium on new data center construction up in New York.

And then Bernie Sanders and AOC proposed a nationwide moratorium in Congress.

Initially, a lot of GOP lawmakers said, Oh, that's great, more business for red states, keep those moratoriums up.

But as public sentiment shifted, upwards of 60% of Republicans now oppose data centers.

Have responded in kind.

Now the GOP is following the Democrat suit.

To that point, the National Republican Senatorial Committee sent a private memo warning that support of data centers could cost them key races in Ohio and spread elsewhere.

So they're basically telling Republican candidates: hey, be careful supporting these things.

Now we've seen GOP Senate nominee Mike Rogers in Michigan come out in support also of a one-year moratorium.

Elsewhere, Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who's also

On the ballot, has paused data center projects looking for access to the state power grid.

And then a number of Republican gubernatorial candidates across Maine, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania have also stepped up their own anti-data center rhetoric.

At this point, you could really count on one hand how many politicians in either party are campaigning in support of this technology, despite the clear economic upside.

So a lot of voters are simply uneasy with the rise of AI in general, and I think view data centers as a physical manifestation of the technology.

So it's a kind of proxy war for their distrust of AI.

But there are also a lot of concrete concerns if you look into the polling.

So the top issue of concern is access to resources, namely the data centers are going to use up too much water and also take up a lot of energy and then cause power prices to go up.

There are also concerns over environmental and biological impacts, noise pollution, and of course, quality of living.

Uh, no one really wants a windowless warehouse in their backyard.

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