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6 October
10:34 pm

he has also voted four times to block the ability of local communities to have a voice or a say in whether data centers can come to those communities

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Jocelyn Benson, at Michigan Governor General Election Debate (WOOD TV8)

10:34 pm
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What we foundJames did cast four votes in support of a provision that would have blocked state and local regulation of AI systems, which could have encompassed data centers, but the provision targeted AI broadly rather than data centers specifically, and it was stripped from the bill before it became law.
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