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Data centers are now on Tuesday’s ballot. Candidates for governor in both parties are promising to pause or restrict new ones, and it isn’t a clean partisan split. The backlash has been building for months.

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How the backlash built

It started with communities. Local bans on data centers kept spreading this summer. Then the money got more cautious: Nscale is heading to an IPO on the strength of data centers it hasn’t built, and lenders are getting pickier about financing the boom.

Why Tuesday matters

Governors hold the most power to limit data centers on a broad scale, so the next move is theirs. If more candidates follow through on their pledges, builders could find even fewer places to build. Read our full analysis of where every nominee stands.

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