Tech companies involved in artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency are making a big push financially to make sure candidates that support their industries are elected in the 2026 mid-terms. Despite growing concerns about massive, electricity-intensive data centers and AI's impact on jobs and privacy, billionaire tech moguls are setting up political action committees (PACs) to try to convince voters that their preferred candidate should be elected. From HuffPo:
"AI companies have modeled their lobbying efforts after crypto-backed groups, another influential segment of the tech industry that invested heavily in the 2022 and 2024 elections. Crypto super PACs spent tens of millions of dollars, for example, on ads to block Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) from being elected to the Senate last year. They did the same to oust former Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and elect his replacement, crypto-friendly GOP businessman Bernie Moreno, who now holds his seat.
Leading The Future, the main pro-AI industry super PAC backed by OpenAI, plans to spend at least $100 million to support candidates who favor AI adoption with minimal regulatory hindrances. They’ve begun deploying their resources in congressional races, spending $5 million in support of Rep. Byron Donalds’ (R-Fla.) bid for governor in Florida and contributing $1 million to defeat Alex Bores, a Democratic assemblyman from New York who spearheaded new rules on the industry, quickly making himself a target." (our emphasis)
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is introducing legislation that would curb the construction of data centers, but is concerned beyond the impacts on electricity prices, as he discussed with the HuffPo:
“The big money interests, the billionaires who control our economy and our political system, are going to do everything to elect people to give them a green light to go forward. I happen to believe that Congress and the American people are totally unprepared for the transformational and radical impact it’s going to have on our society."
In a separate call with reporters, Sanders said:
“What I am looking at right now goes beyond electric rates,” he said on a call with reporters on Thursday. “It goes to who will control, essentially control, this transformative technology. Will it simply be Elon Musk? And Bezos and other multi-billionaires who will make huge amounts of money off of this. Or will AI and robotics work to improve life for human beings?”
We saw in the 2024 election the influence of South Afrikaner fascist Musk in electing the Malignant Fascist, and he and Bezos, Zuckerberg, and the Ellisons will spend lavishly to influence the upcoming one to serve them.
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