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In Wisconsin, Republican Rep. Tom Tiffany, who is running for governor, has attacked Democratic candidate David Crowley over his past comments on data center development in Milwaukee County.

“I know you are, but what am I?” The Republican nominee, Congressman Tom Tiffany, has been the aggressor in this argument. Tiffany has branded his Democratic rival David Crowley as “Data Center David,” spotlighting the Milwaukee County Executive’s past support for turning Wisconsin into a “data hub” for “the entire globe.” In the Republican’s telling, Crowley is a corporate stooge eager to let Wisconsin’s “lakes run dry” and its “family farms” get “paved over,” just to generate higher profits for his Silicon Valley paymasters.

“If I were the mayor of a town or the governor of a state, and I had a chance to get a big plant in, an AI plant or a data center,” Trump said, “I would absolutely want it because the jobs are enormous and the money paid, the taxes paid, are just enormous.”

The Wisconsin governor’s race has quickly become the most prominent flashpoint in the national war over data centers. And it’s not hard to tell which side is winning. On Tuesday, Josh Shapiro, the moderate Democratic governor of Pennsylvania, announced a suite of measures to slow and block “predatory” data center developments, after having previously led efforts to attract them.

With two full months until the election, the Democratic candidate this week made data centers a major focus, pledging to pause new data center tax breaks if elected. Ford also called for a systematic review of the economic effects of the existing tax incentive program, which he backed as state senator in 2015, alongside a statewide ban on evaporative cooling, the end of development of data centers on federal land, and more metrics on data centers receiving tax breaks, according to the Nevada Independent.

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• Crowley and Tiffany have held off on embracing a moratorium for that reason. Crowley has returned fire. The Democrat has insisted that every Wisconsin community should have veto power over any data center project within its territory — and that new computing campuses anywhere in the state must comply with strict regulations. Meanwhile, Crowley has argued that Tiffany is the race’s true corporate shill, noting that the member of Congress voted for tax cuts that benefit Big Tech (paid for with cuts to Medicaid and food stamps), permitting reforms that made data centers easier to build, and a ban on state and local AI regulations. “Congressman Tiffany loves data centers,” Crowley warned in a recent statement.