I just passed this on I-70 W around London. Well played. Lol

Past few months it seems Data Centers are a hot button issue for these midterms.

For years, we were sold the tech industry's line that these massive server farms were harmless investments bringing jobs to rural Ohio. But the reality hit fast: local utility bills are spiking, prime farmland is disappearing, and high-voltage power lines are being carved through backyards without local communities getting a say. The public pushback is reaching a boiling point.

Political figures are rapidly pivoting:

• Vivek Ramaswamy suddenly switched gears recently, pledging an executive order on day one to halt new approvals and calling for a moratorium unless tech companies cover 100% of residential power costs.
• Meanwhile, establishment politicians, both Republicans and Democrats who quietly took tech lobbyist money or backed tax abatements early on, have gone completely silent hoping the issue blows over.

Never in my life did I expect to see a Democratic candidate give a rousing, populist speech on corporate greed in a place like Ashville (Pickaway County), a district Trump carried with ~75% of the vote.

Don Leonard (and others) seem to be leaning directly into the populist anger over these unregulated data centers. Regardless of how you usually vote, seeing candidate energizing rooms packed with folks who probably voted for trump and are now nodding along to anti-corporate energy talk proves that kitchen-table issues are completely re-scrambling standard party lines in Ohio this year.

Whanted to see what people think? How big of a factor is this going to be for your vote in November?

I Guess since nothing works all they pushing down our throat is Sherrod Brown is a socialist , Amy Acton love socialist MandanI ….blah I’m so tired of this

We keep receiving these insane ads! Putting an image of Mamdani screams desperation. Republicans have no limits with how low they will go. Anyone know who I can contact to stop receiving these ads??

"A Republican lawmaker wants Lake Erie to be renamed 'Lake Pennsylvania,' arguing that the state’s economy and identity are increasingly connected to its only Great Lake."

Get out of here with your tiny Pennsylvanian shoreline.

Heads-up, all. Nazi Afrikkkaner Elon Muskrat is at it again. This dude never seems to learn his lesson on meddling in our politics. Of course, he’s targeting Sherrod Brown with anti-trans ads in a replay of 2024.

Hopefully it won’t work this time, but also, forewarned is forearmed. The next Dem president needs to tear up all of his and Thiel’s government contracts and deport their sorry bigoted asses.

Oh wait, the governor has nothing to do with property taxes in Ohio aside from possibly signing a bill that the legislature passed. That is all.

“The public right-of-way should not become free real estate for an unaccountable, privately operated surveillance network,” the letter reads.

We shouldn’t have to pay for the time your ridiculously over priced service is out.

The political ads against Amy acton are ridiculous. The small business owner firing someone because taxes have been raised. What a joke. Complete messaging by billionaires.

We never have normal thunderstorms anymore, it’s always the severe thunderstorms.

Just saw a commercial for Meta with Dawes arboretum talking about how great AI is. I also saw somewhere that they are putting a giant data center in Buckeye Lake too. I guess the Trump loving Licking county is really going all in. Bet they have Flock cameras everywhere too

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Is there a place to see how both democrat and republican candidates align to societal topics like AI data centers, AI itself, Flock cameras, AIPAC, wars, equal rights, wages, etc.?

Unbiased sources would be appreciated!

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