Dem Senate hopeful flip-flops on emerging issue impacting communities across US

The article discusses the political backlash against AI data centers and how this issue is being tied to electricity prices, environmental concerns, and job displacement. It focuses on former Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown, who once praised Amazon’s data center expansion in Ohio but now campaigns against data centers, arguing they raise utility costs and should pay the full cost of their power use. The piece frames this as part of a broader Democratic strategy to appeal to voters on affordability, while noting that evidence linking data centers to higher energy prices remains unclear. For Amazon, the issue is reputational and regulatory rather than an immediate financial event, but it could affect future data-center expansion, local incentives, and political scrutiny around infrastructure and power usage.