‘System is rigged’: Democrat Sherrod Brown puts datacenter danger at heart of populist Senate bid
Photograph: Jeff Dean/Getty ImagesView image in fullscreenSherrod Brown in Columbus. Brown believes the massive installations that pop up without warning do little good for the people around them.“Nobody knows they’re there,” Brown, speaking in shirtsleeves and without notes, said in his gravely voice, as the crowd murmurs in agreement. They swallow up our water … then once they’re built, our electricity prices go up.”It was the latest iteration of an argument that Brown has been making his whole political career: that the most powerful people in the United States do not have the interests of Ohioans at heart.
- ▪Photograph: Jeff Dean/Getty ImagesView image in fullscreenSherrod Brown in Columbus.
- ▪Brown believes the massive installations that pop up without warning do little good for the people around them.“Nobody knows they’re there,” Brown, speaking in shirtsleeves and without notes, said in his gravely voice, as the crowd murmurs
- ▪They swallow up our water … then once they’re built, our electricity prices go up.”It was the latest iteration of an argument that Brown has been making his whole political career: that the most powerful people in the United States do not h
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Sherrod Brown in Columbus. Photograph: Jeff Dean/Getty ImagesView image in fullscreenSherrod Brown in Columbus. Photograph: Jeff Dean/Getty ImagesOhio‘System is rigged’: Democrat Sherrod Brown puts datacenter danger at heart of populist Senate bidOhio former senator attacks Republican rival as the ‘face of datacenters’ as he wraps AI concerns into pro-worker messageChris Stein in Lima, OhioThu 8 Oct 2026 06.00 EDTLast modified on Thu 8 Oct 2026 06.01 EDTSharePrefer the Guardian on GoogleSherrod Brown, the Democratic former senator from Ohio hoping to return to office in November’s midterm elections, has spent the past year traveling across his home state explaining to voters about all the ways the “system is rigged” against them.
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