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The electricity demands of AI infrastructure are generating a political fight that has now reached the Senate primary ballot.
Ro Khanna is set to introduce a "Data Center Bill of Rights" as the contest over AI power plants intensifies.
On Tuesday, Abdul El-Sayed won a competitive Democratic Senate primary in Michigan on a platform that included endorsing state and local moratoriums on data centers.
The constraint that defines the fight The label "AI power plants" reflects a real technical pressure: data centers built for large-scale AI workloads draw power at a level that puts them in conflict with grid capacity and local energy planning.
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