All politics is local, as the adage goes. In Arkansas, this year’s midterm campaigns are revealing that data center politics is primarily local too.
The concern over data centers has prompted a local backlash in Arkansas, with several communities enacting measures to block their construction or impose new restrictions.
But unlike in states like Ohio and Texas where data centers have become one of the leading issues in the midterm election, the political fallout in Arkansas hasn’t been as prominent in top races for governor, Congress or the Legislature. Data centers and artificial intelligence have mostly come up in local races…