00:00Data centers have gotten so unpopular that even a Republican senator says the industry has earned
00:05that backlash. And next Tuesday, that anger could help decide who controls the Senate.
00:10Here's what's happening. Data centers use huge amounts of power and four in five Ohio adults
00:15expect them to drive up their electric and water bills. Democratic challenger Sherrod Brown is
00:19running TV ads saying Republican Senator John Husted force-fed the massive energy-sucking
00:25facilities to Ohio. Husted's campaign points to the tax money data centers bring to schools,
00:30but he now wants to end their tax breaks and make them pay for their power. In Texas,
00:34Republicans are split almost evenly, but more strongly oppose data centers than strongly support
00:39them. Nationally, only about one in 14 voters call data centers a top three issue, but a political
00:45scientist told us that in races this close, even a small shift could matter. Our energy reporter
00:50Keaton Peters talked to a Republican precinct chair in Texas who expects angry GOP voters to break from
00:55the party. What she thinks they'll do instead is in the full story on our website. So does a data
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