"Winners this week either want to crack down on new data centers or enact a moratorium."

"The movement to curb the data center boom emerged Wednesday with new political muscle.

Primary voters rewarded progressive candidates in Michigan and Kansas calling for tough crackdowns on data centers, intensifying the split within the Democratic Party over the right approach to regulate the industry.

William Lawrence, co-founder of the progressive Sunrise Movement, won the Democratic primary for Michigan’s Lansing area 7th District. And Abdul El-Sayed, who nabbed Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary over more-moderate Rep. Haley Stevens, was one of the earliest midterm candidates to embrace data center concerns."

Timothy Cama and Liz Crampton report for E&E �ews August 5, 2026. [2]