Data-Center Backlash Emerges as Midterm Issue

Data-center expansion is provoking bipartisan resistance over electricity demand, utility bills, water use, and secret development negotiations, with reported national opposition near 75%. Georgia cases show that promised tax revenue may offer limited property-tax relief because of state-law, school-tax, infrastructure, and voter-approval constraints. Trump’s dismissive “backwards and poor” framing gives Democrats a simple affordability and anti-corruption contrast, though labor support for construction could complicate the coalition.