[UPDATE] Republican Senate committee memo calls data-center opposition a 2026 'sleeper issue'
The National Republican Senatorial Committee is reported to have sent a private memo to major AI companies warning that local opposition to data centers has become a sleeper electoral issue, citing a Fox News poll in which 65% of Ohio voters opposed an AI data center in their area. Ohio is where OpenAI's Pike County campus is sited, the project behind Nvidia's reported guarantees to SB Energy. Siting and permitting risk is the transmission channel to watch for the power and grid names.