The zip code with Mar-a-Lago bans the data centers Interior is scouring public land to build.

…(cont) On September fourth, a Gallup survey found Americans would rather live next to a nuclear power plant than a data center, by more than twenty points. On September twenty-second, a separate poll, different pollster, found only seven percent of registered voters call data centers one of their top three issues. Both numbers are true at once: the opposition runs deep, and it is not yet what most voters say they are voting on. That is the gap the Ratepayer Protection Act is trying to close before the polling catches up to the salience.

On September twenty-fifth, Palm Beach County, Florida — the zip code that includes Mar-a-Lago — voted six to zero to ban new large-scale data centers, anything drawing fifty megawatts or more, for one year.

Today, a second Gallup survey puts opposition at seventy percent nationwide. Today also, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer is trying to keep Husted's bill off the floor, and his own caucus is not fully behind him, because the House Democrats who already voted yes are still standing there.

Seventy percent oppose the land use. The county that banned it first is the one with the president's name on the deed. The bill that would make the industry pay its own electricity bill is stuck between a Republican sponsor and a Democratic leader who doesn't want him to have the win. Find the gap between what voters say and what the Senate does, hon — it's zoned R-1, gated, and currently under a one-year moratorium.