周二晚间，承诺打击数据中心的候选人大获全胜。周二竞选获胜、誓言遏制数据中心扩张的国会候选人组成了一支不小的队伍——其中包括一些全国最知名的新任民主党参议员——他们有望让国会山对人工智能基础设施建设的态度变得更加敌对，并增加同僚推动新法规出台的压力。
Candidates who promised to crack down on data centers won big Tuesday night. The small army of congressional candidates who ran to victory Tuesday vowing to halt the expansion of data centers — including some of the country’s most prominent incoming Democratic senators — are poised to make Capitol Hill far more antagonistic toward the AI infrastructure build-out and increase pressure on their colleagues to act on new regulations.
佐治亚州民主党参议员乔恩·奥索夫、俄亥俄州前参议员谢罗德·布朗以及密歇根州的阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德，均在数据中心日益成为前沿议题的参议院竞选中获胜。在南卡罗来纳州，共和党参议员达琳·格雷厄姆败给了民主党人安妮·安德鲁斯，此前支持数据中心的超级政治行动委员会“构建未来”斥资250万美元支持这位现任议员——这是一个更广泛趋势的一部分：被对手贴上支持数据中心标签、且紧随唐纳德·特朗普总统支持这些设施立场的共和党人纷纷落选。
Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff in Georgia, former Sen. Sherrod Brown in Ohio and Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan all won Senate races where data centers had increasingly become a front-line issue. In South Carolina, Republican Sen. Darline Graham lost to Democrat Annie Andrews, after pro-data-center super PAC Building the Future spent $2.5 million to support the incumbent — part of a broader trend where Republicans who were pegged as pro-data center by opponents, and hewed close to President Donald Trump’s support of the facilities, lost races.
布朗周二晚在胜选演讲中说：“我将永远站在你们一边——永远。我不为公用事业公司工作，不为数据中心工作，不为华尔街工作。我为你们工作，我为俄亥俄工作。”
“I will always be on your side — always. I do not work for the utility companies. I do not work for data centers. I do not work for Wall Street. I work for you, I work for Ohio,” Brown said in his victory speech Tuesday night.
所有参议院候选人都在辩论中谈到，需要确保科技公司为自己的用电买单。布朗尤其将数据中心作为楔子议题，投放广告将对手、共和党参议员乔恩·休斯特描绘为支持者。
All of the Senate candidates spoke in debates about the need to ensure that technology companies pay for their own power. Brown, in particular, used data centers as a wedge issue, running ad campaigns depicting opponent Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) as a supporter.