# The Politics of Data Centers Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/political-breakdown-683875/the-politics-of-data-centers Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/political-breakdown-683875/the-politics-of-data-centers.md Podcast: [Political Breakdown](https://stenobird.com/podcast/political-breakdown-683875) Published: 2026-07-16T23:24:00+00:00 Episode link: https://next.kqed.org/news/12091341 Audio file: https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.megaphone.fm/KQINC4530678150.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/political-breakdown-683875/episodes/the-politics-of-data-centers Duration seconds: 2129 ## Resource Nearly half of U.S. House Democrats voted yesterday to eliminate $3.3 billion in military and humanitarian aid to Israel. Although the amendment failed 314-104, it revealed a sea change in the party’s views on U.S.-Israel relations. Marisa and Guy discuss the trends behind which members voted yes, no or present and how Republicans are capitalizing on this party split.  Then, Marisa talks with Wired senior reporter Molly Taft about the politics of data centers. The construction of hyperscale data centers to power Artificial Intelligence have become a flashpoint in communities across the nation ahead of the November election, and both parties are trying to capitalize on the anti-data center movement. They discuss why the data centers draw such strong opposition, how communities are responding and whether Americans will ever receive equity shares in AI companies.   Check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠Political Breakdown’s weekly newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠, delivered straight to your inbox. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/political-breakdown-683875/episodes/the-politics-of-data-centers/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/political-breakdown-683875/the-politics-of-data-centers.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.