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The party that hopes to reclaim control of Congress in the November election remains divided on its approach to Big Tech’s top priority.
Protesters rally at an April 7 meeting in Springfield, Illinois, where the Sangamon County Board approved a zoning permit for a proposed $500 million data center. | Thomas J. Turney/The State Journal-Register via Imagn
House Democrats are heading into the midterms with a pocketbook-focused message on artificial intelligence — one narrowly centered on the energy costs of data centers, but far milder than the populist outcry against Big Tech that is stymieing AI projects across the country.
The theme that party leaders are settling on — articulated by multiple House Democrats who spoke to POLITICO — meshes with Democrats’ wider attacks on soaring fuel prices and other affordability flashpoints of the second Trump era. It also avoids a direct collision between Democrats and the AI industry, which has amassed hundreds of millions of dollars it could spend on this year’s elections.
