{"id":10202,"date":"2026-11-08T15:21:28","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T15:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=10202"},"modified":"2026-11-08T15:21:28","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T15:21:28","slug":"he-ran-on-fighting-data-centers-now-hes-going-to-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=10202","title":{"rendered":"He Ran on Fighting Data Centers. Now, He\u2019s Going to Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"body lead-in-text\">Welcome back to<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/tag\/power-play\/\" class=\"text link\">Power Play<\/a>! <em>Senior writer Molly Taft has been tackling topics around this midterm season\u2019s biggest issue: data centers. With the elections over,<\/em> Power Play <em>will be going on hiatus. But if you\u2019ve got a question or thought for a story, feel free to shoot Molly an email at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#7b1614171702240f1a1d0f3b0c12091e1f55181416\" class=\"text link\"><span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"721f1d1e1e0b2d0613140632051b0017165c111d1f\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/span><\/a> or reach them securely on Signal at mollytaft.76.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><span class=\"body lead-in-text\">If there\u2019s any<\/span> incoming congressional freshman who understands how voter anger about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/tag\/data-centers\/\" class=\"text link\">data centers<\/a> supercharged this week\u2019s election, it\u2019s Will Lawrence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">A former member of the Democratic Socialists of America who helped found the Sunrise Movement, Lawrence centered his campaign on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/anti-data-center-movement-reshaping-michigan-politics\/\" class=\"text link\">opposition to data centers<\/a> from the beginning, months before many other candidates had caught on. It helped him win a challenging primary in Michigan\u2019s 7th Congressional District against much-better-funded opponents, and this week, he defeated incumbent Republican Tom Barrett in one of the most expensive House races in the country. (Elon Musk\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/elon-musks-america-pac-is-spending-big-on-the-midterms-were-tracking-it-daily\/\" class=\"text link\">America PAC<\/a> chipped in $340,000 against Lawrence.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">For this last edition of <em>Power Play<\/em>, I caught up with Lawrence about what the future holds for data center developers and for voters concerned about them, and what his plans are when he gets to Washington, DC, next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>MOLLY TAFT: I\u2019ve seen some post-election takes that data centers weren\u2019t as big of a factor for voters as media coverage may suggest. I\u2019m curious as to what you heard from voters in the last weeks of the campaign about how data centers may be competing with other big issues in this election.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>WILL LAWRENCE:<\/strong> What are the two headlines on the election? It&#8217;s been about costs, and it\u2019s about corruption. Data centers speak directly to costs and to the legalized corruption that&#8217;s become ordinary business in our rigged economy. They\u2019re taking tax breaks, they\u2019re sucking up water, they\u2019re proposing to use double or triple the total capacity of the grid in Michigan, they\u2019re threatening people\u2019s home values.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">All of this is being done because the playing field is fundamentally slanted away from local communities and towards these mega corporations. People have attempted to exert community control and local oversight, and they&#8217;ve been challenged in court by these Silicon Valley companies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">You see an economy and a political order that is favoring the wealthy few over the many. It really makes a mockery of democracy itself. Why is it that we keep having to play whack-a-mole against these individual projects? It shows that people in Silicon Valley and Wall Street and DC have made these decisions for us, and it speaks of the lack of economic democracy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/he-ran-on-fighting-data-centers-now-hes-going-to-congress\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to Power Play! Senior writer Molly Taft has been tackling topics around this midterm season\u2019s biggest issue: data centers. With the elections over, Power Play will be going on hiatus. 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