Who paid for the data centers, and what did they get?

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The money is corporate-treasury and employee-PAC giving reported in the sixteen states’ own filing systems (and VPAP for Virginia), 2023 to the latest filing, with Louisiana’s file from 2015. Transfers between a politician’s own committees, conduit memo lines and gifts from the opposing side (Clean Virginia, local opposition committees) are left out. Executives’ personal cheques, super PAC spending, 527 transfers and lobbying are different kinds of money; the report keeps them apart, and nothing on this page adds across kinds. The federal lobbying figure, $336.5M of client spend on 458 filings that mention data centers, is an upper bound: a filing’s amount covers every issue on it.

The votes are the legislatures’ own roll calls, loaded for the members the study follows (the whole chamber where the state publishes it). A yea is a vote for the measure as titled. The measures are the bills, commission orders, executive actions and elections the study identified; each links to its official record.

Every payer total was reconciled against the payer’s own reports where the state publishes them, and every figure in the report was re-derived from these rows on 2026-10-22; the checks are in the report’s verification log. Figures on this page were last recomputed on October 22, 2026. Correlation is not proof of causation; the record shows what was paid and what was decided.