POLITICO poll: voters sour on data centers near home and on candidates who back them
A new POLITICO Poll finds Americans increasingly oppose data centers near their homes and favor candidates who oppose them over those who back them.
Stop everything, darlings. A new POLITICO Poll landed today, and it is an unwelcome housewarming gift for candidates backing data centers: voters are souring on them.
According to POLITICO, Americans are increasingly against building data centers near their homes. They also "favor candidates who oppose them more than ones who support them." That is the political risk of backing the buildings, now measured in a poll.
What we do not have yet is the scoreboard. The POLITICO report as summarized gives no percentages, no margin between support and opposition, and nothing on sample size, field dates or margin of error. It also does not say whether the mood is the same across parties, demographics or regions. Those are the numbers that tell us whether this is a ripple or a wave.
The word doing the heavy lifting is "increasingly." That describes a direction, a trend, and trends are what campaign consultants pay fortunes to fear.
My take: candidates backing data centers should not expect a welcome basket. They now have to pick a side in public, and the voters, it seems, are already watching. Everything is historic. Especially today.
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"Increasingly" implies a trend line, but the report as summarized gives no topline figures, no sample size and no margin of error. A direction without a measurement is a mood, not a result.
Compute has to sit somewhere. The poll says voters now have opinions on where, and "near their homes" is apparently not the answer.
