ace‘System is rigged’: Democrat Sherrod Brown puts datacenter danger at heart of populist Senate bid
Sherrod Brown, the Democratic former senator from Ohio hoping to return to office in November’s midterm elections, has spent the past year traveling across his home state explaining to voters about all the ways the “system is rigged” against them. Recently, he’s been telling people about a trip he took across the north-west Ohio countryside. “You’re driving on what looks like really good farmland, driving past fields, driving past barns, driving past milking parlors, and you see, all of a sudden, you see these h…
Ohio's AI-driven datacenter expansion, backed by $2.5bn in tax breaks, is blamed by a candidate for consuming land and water and raising electricity prices, prompting local moratoriums and a state pause on tax exemptions.
The article reports contested claims rather than measured impacts: Husted's campaign disputes Brown's account of his role, and the race remains within the poll's margin of error.
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- JournalismThe Guardian2026-10-08
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