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Democrats blocked a bill to make AI data centers cover rising electricity costs, a key midterm election issue that could impact Sen. Jon Husted's Ohio race.

Senate Democrats blocked a GOP bill combining a stock trading ban for lawmakers with voter ID requirements. Republicans plan a second vote on AI data centers and electricity costs.

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At the Pro-Human Assembly in Washington, D.C., attendees talked less about jobs and policy, and more about their philosophy of life. In the past year, data centers have emerged as a central issue in both American politics and the gyre of discourse swirling around American politics. On blogs and podcasts, the commentariat has marvelled at the emergence of an elusive bipartisan consensus. And well they should: the most recent polling shows that an astounding seventy-one per cent of the population opposes data-center construction in their areas. Equally astonishing, if not yet equally remarked upon, is the consensus about A.I. itself.

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