GOP memo warns AI firms that data centers are sinking Ohio's Senate race

The National Republican Senatorial Committee told top AI companies in a private memo, 'Ohio Data Center Risk,' that backlash over data centers is endangering Sen. Jon Husted, with internal polling rating them about as popular as spent nuclear waste and a Fox News poll putting Sherrod Brown up 8 points after millions in summer ads branding Husted the face of Ohio data centers. The memo's demand — explain who benefits, who pays, and why a community would want one — marks the point where compute buildout became a political liability, and a Husted loss blamed on data centers would make siting the next one harder in every state.

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