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Ro Khanna's 'Data Center Bill of Rights' arrives as AI power plant politics reach the primary ballot

8/6/2026

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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