Data centers emerge as growing wedge issue in midterm races

The tech industry’s expansion of data centers is emerging as a wedge contented successful the midterms, as candidates weigh economic opportunity against the associated strain on voters’ utility bills.   In the Michigan governor’s race, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D), whose husband is a apical enforcement astatine a company pressing for a caller information center, wants regulations addressing related water usage and vigor costs. Other candidates similar Republican Tom Leonard are going adjacent further, pushing for a impermanent mortarium on building…