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With more than $240M raised, AI-backed super PACs are a major new spender in politics. But what are they buying? From fights over data centers to national policy, CNN follows the money to reveal what AI companies want.

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What is the level of public opposition to AI data centers according to a recent Gallup poll?
71% of Americans oppose them.
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What are the reported cash on hand amounts for the Defending Our Values PAC and the Guardrails Alliance?
The Republican-focused Defending Our Values PAC closed out the quarter with nearly $315,000 cash on hand, while the Guardrails Alliance, a newly launched super PAC backed by tech workers and founded by Democratic organizers, reported nearly $400,000 cash on hand.
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What is the financial situation and political affiliation of the Jobs and Democracy PAC?
Jobs and Democracy PAC, which backs Democrats, ended the quarter with about $1.3 million cash on hand; it received nearly $10 million from the affiliated 501(c)(4) Public First Action during the reporting period, in addition to money from Public First PAC.
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How much did Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and other tech employees contribute to the Public First PAC?
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei donated $1 million to Public First, while employees from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI collectively contributed more than $2 million to the super PAC.
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What is the financial status and affiliation of the bipartisan Public First PAC?
The bipartisan Public First PAC reported approximately $494,000 cash on hand at the end of Q2; it is tied to the bipartisan 501(c)(4) nonprofit Public First Action and transferred $3.3 million to its affiliate, Jobs and Democracy PAC.
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How are Nvidia and other companies responding to the data center fight?
Nvidia is throwing billions of dollars into funding the infrastructure. Meanwhile, Big Tech companies are working to charm local communities to ensure their projects are built.
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Which U.S. states have seen data center opposition surface in political races?
The backlash has surfaced in political races in Michigan, Wisconsin, Texas, and Ohio.
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What is the estimated water consumption of data centers?
Data centers can require 5 million gallons of water a day for cooling alone. In 2023, U.S. data centers consumed approximately 17 billion gallons of water, mostly for cooling, according to a Berkeley Lab report. Additionally, Berkeley Lab states that data centers have an indirect water footprint of about 211 billion gallons to help produce the electricity they consume.
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How do newer data centers specifically support Artificial Intelligence?
Newer data centers provide the computing power behind AI by housing servers that contain specialized chips, such as graphics processing units (GPUs), which perform the necessary calculations to train and run AI models.
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What is President Trump's position regarding the building of new data centers?
President Trump stated that he is fully supportive of building new data centers.
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