This Senate race where data centers are a crucial issue has more spending than any other midterm clash
THE SO WHAT
When a Senate race centers on data centers, power and land use for compute are no longer back-office issues—they’re electoral. If your roadmap assumes large-scale AI infra, start treating local politics, zoning, and community relations as core dependencies, not afterthoughts.
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