{"slug": "the-data-center-backlash-is-here-and-big-tech-is-spending-big-to-combat-it", "title": "The Data Center Backlash Is Here — and Big Tech Is Spending Big to Combat It", "summary": "A May Gallup poll found seven in 10 Americans oppose data center construction in their communities, and California lawmakers are advancing seven bills to regulate the facilities amid a lobbying push led by Pacific Gas & Electric, Amazon, and Anthropic. The pro-data-center spenders have poured millions into lobbying state officials, with Amazon paying over $500,000 in the first half of 2026 and Anthropic spending nearly $90,000, as public backlash over utility costs, water use, and grid strain grows.", "body_md": "The Data Center Backlash Is Here — and Big Tech Is Spending Big to Combat It\n\nAs the public turns against data centers in California, business interests are trying to blunt the backlash.\n\nKatherine Ortiz and Khari Johnson, CalMatters\n\nPolls show voters are turning sharply against data centers and several bills to regulate the facilities are advancing in the California Legislature. Utilities and tech companies, meanwhile, are spending millions lobbying state officials. A lobbyist talks on his phone at the state Capitol in Sacramento on Sept. 12, 2025. (Fred Greaves/CalMatters)\n\nThis story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters.\n\nCompanies backing data center construction are flooding Sacramento with cash, hoping to stop or defang seven bills that would regulate the facilities as they head toward approval in the California Legislature this week.\n\nThe pro-data-center spenders include Big Tech companies like Amazon and AI titan Anthropic. But they are led, dollar-wise, by old school utility giant Pacific Gas & Electric, which earlier this year clocked its second biggest lobbying quarter since 1999.\n\nThe financial push comes a year after four bills that attempted to regulate data centers died or were diluted after lobbying from the industry. But as artificial intelligence fuels an unprecedented facility buildout, public backlash is transforming data center construction into a major issue for candidates in upcoming elections.\n\nA May Gallup poll found seven in 10 Americans oppose data center construction in their communities, while a Public Policy Institute of California poll in July found similar opposition statewide. Rising public anxiety over utility costs, water use, and grid strain has driven California lawmakers to propose strict new data center rules — igniting a high-stakes lobbying push by the industry.\n\nHundreds of cities have considered or passed project bans this year, including in Monterey Park, where voters passed a ballot measure to permanently ban data centers, and Bay Area cities like Pittsburg, which backtracked on approvals following public outcry.\n\nState law requires businesses and groups that engage in lobbying to report their overall quarterly spending, but does not require a breakdown of exactly how much is being spent on each bill. An analysis by CalMatters of lobbying activity for the first six months of 2026 found that utilities, tech companies and their proxies have spent millions of dollars lobbying state lawmakers, with data center bills emerging as a primary focus.\n\nBy Monday, it will be clear which bills made it out of the Legislature and onto Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk for signature or veto by the end of September.\n\nThe fate of the measures could have far-reaching consequences, affecting not only data center development but environmental regulation, utility rates, and how freely California’s tech giants can operate in the state. Nationally, advocates and lawmakers agree that California’s regulation around data centers could be an important bellwether for how similar fights will play out elsewhere.\n\n“The level of awareness is through the roof, and the level of concern and sensitivity is through the roof — it’s bipartisan, it’s national, and it’s across the board,” California Sen. Steve Padilla, a Democrat from Chula Vista who is author of two pending data center bills, told CalMatters.\n\nWho is lobbying on data centers\n\nDuring the first half of 2026, Amazon paid more than $500,000 to lobby lawmakers on 33 pieces of legislation, including several data center bills and matters related to antitrust and artificial intelligence. Amazon spent more than $1.7 million lobbying in California last year.\n\nMeanwhile, AI company Anthropic, which sent its first lobbyists to Sacramento last year, has spent nearly $90,000 to influence decisions made by the California Legislature so far this year and, according to the Financial Times, nearly tripled its federal lobbying spend in the same time period. Last year, Anthropic spent over $200,000 lobbying in the state.\n\nRelated Article\n\nAlthough Anthropic paid a lobbyist to influence lawmakers decisionmaking on data centers, a spokesperson said the company does not support or oppose any specific bills in California. The company, the spokesperson said, is also interested in working with lawmakers “on AI safety and other relevant issues.” Representatives for Amazon did not respond to a request for comment from CalMatters.\n\nUtility giant PG&E’s latest filing shows that it spent $2.86 million lobbying in California between April and June — its second highest quarter since 1999 (only surpassed since then by 2018, the year of the deadliest wildfire in state history, later linked to its equipment). A spokesperson for PG&E said the company has engaged on a “broad scope” of issues facing the industry during this legislative session, adding that “less than 5% of our spending was on data-center related issues,” amounting to approximately $143,000.\n\nOther utilities, like Southern California Edison, and unions representing utility workers, like the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, have also invested in lobbying efforts on the bills.\n\nUtilities providers are particularly motivated to influence bills because the development of new data centers represents a historic opportunity for expansion and grid upgrades, according to Matthew Freedman, senior staff attorney for The Utility Reform Network. Under the current regulatory framework, he said, the cost of expanding transmission lines is spread across all grid users, which means everyday consumers foot the bill.\n\nBut several of this year’s data center bills would change that, shifting costs back toward data center operators. “The groups that have been the strongest opponents of the bills this year include the proxies for the data centers and the tech companies,” Freedman said, referring to industry groups such as the Data Center Coalition, Silicon Valley Leadership Group and the California Chamber of Commerce. “They serve as a mouthpiece for the tech industry.”\n\nFilings do not show that tech giants like Google, OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft are lobbying lawmakers directly on data centers this session. Instead, the business groups Freedman referenced, which represent the Big Tech firms, carry the weight.\n\nSilicon Valley Leadership Group, which represents companies including Apple and Amazon, has so far spent over $100,000 lobbying on bills including the various data center measures this year and is on track for its highest annual lobbying spend since tracking began in 2005.\n\nThe Data Center Coalition, which counts companies like Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI among its members, has logged its second and third highest-ever spending quarters so far this year. It has spent roughly $60,000 lobbying state lawmakers and the governor’s office to voice opposition to nearly every bill that would regulate data centers.\n\nThe bills and the backlash\n\nThe measures before the Legislature this session include:\n\nBills to shift electric infrastructure costs toward data center operators and away from residential customers: SB 1168, SB 886 and AB 2383.\n\nBills mandating disclosures or estimates of water usage (and sometimes usage of other resources): AB 2619 and two bills that cleared the Legislature Thursday, AB 1577 and AB 2469.\n\nSB 887, which would require all data center projects to undergo environmental reviews and offer fast-tracked approval for facilities that meet standards for water and energy conservation.\n\nBusiness interests opposed to the bills argue they would stifle tech companies’ ability to innovate and compete, tie up critical infrastructure in red tape and unfairly burden the construction of data centers versus the construction of other types of projects.\n\nSilicon Valley Leadership Group CEO Ahmad Thomas told CalMatters that he sees public debate over data centers as fueled by “strong anti-AI sentiment,” and that industry groups like his aim to “ground the conversation in reality” about the ways consumers rely on data center infrastructure for everyday services.\n\nAdvocacy groups counter that transparency is vital to protect the environment and public resources, and that everyday consumers should not be affected by increased infrastructure and utilities costs.\n\nBritt Smith, who is part of a community group organizing against a controversial $2 billion Amazon data center project in Gilroy south of San Jose, said corporate opponents of the bills are “spending so much because there’s so much at stake,” adding, “Our future, our safety, is not for sale.”\n\nThis robust fight stands in stark contrast to last year, when the only bill signed into law was stripped down to just a requirement for state energy regulators to publish an environmental impact study on data centers’ electricity demand. Newsom also vetoed a water usage disclosure bill, citing concerns that regulation could stifle AI growth.\n\nWhether this year’s intensified lobbying will yield similar results remains uncertain, but lawmakers say shifting voter sentiment heading into the midterms has altered the political landscape.\n\n“When you’re looking down the barrel of public outcry that says we don’t want [data centers] at all, and you’ve got localities that are saying they’re going to ban them, then you know the atmosphere has changed,” Assemblymember Diane Papan, a San Mateo Democrat who authored two of the bills, told CalMatters. “We are in a totally different environment this year.”\n\nwindow.__IS_SSR__=true\nwindow.__INITIAL_STATE__={\n\"attachmentsReducer\": {\n\"audio_0\": {\n\"type\": \"attachments\",\n\"id\": \"audio_0\",\n\"imgSizes\": {\n\"kqedFullSize\": {\n\"file\": \"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background0.jpg\"\n}\n}\n},\n\"audio_1\": {\n\"type\": 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But they are led, dollar-wise, by old school utility giant Pacific Gas & Electric, which earlier this year clocked its second biggest lobbying quarter since 1999.\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cp>The financial push comes a year after four bills that attempted to \\u003ca href=\\\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2025/09/data-centers-california-electricity-rates/\\\">regulate data centers\\u003c/a> died or were diluted after lobbying from the industry. But as artificial intelligence fuels an unprecedented facility buildout, public backlash is transforming data center construction into a major issue for candidates in upcoming elections.\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cp>A \\u003ca href=\\\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/709772/americans-oppose-data-centers-area.aspx\\\">May Gallup poll\\u003c/a> found seven in 10 Americans oppose data center construction in their communities, while a Public Policy Institute of California poll in July found \\u003ca href=\\\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/data-center-ppic-survey/\\\">similar opposition statewide.\\u003c/a> Rising public anxiety over utility costs, water use, and grid strain has driven California lawmakers to propose strict new data center rules — igniting a high-stakes lobbying push by the industry.\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cp>Hundreds of cities have considered or passed project bans this year, including in Monterey Park, where voters passed a ballot measure to permanently ban data centers, and Bay Area cities like Pittsburg, which backtracked on approvals following public outcry.\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cfigure id=\\\"attachment_12089535\\\" class=\\\"wp-caption aligncenter\\\" style=\\\"max-width: 2000px\\\">\\u003ca href=\\\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/MontereyParkGetty.jpg\\\">\\u003cimg loading=\\\"lazy\\\" decoding=\\\"async\\\" class=\\\"size-full wp-image-12089535\\\" src=\\\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/MontereyParkGetty.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"\\\" width=\\\"2000\\\" height=\\\"1333\\\" srcset=\\\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/MontereyParkGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/MontereyParkGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/MontereyParkGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\\\" sizes=\\\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\\\" />\\u003c/a>\\u003cfigcaption class=\\\"wp-caption-text\\\">Signs of protest pepper front yards in a nearby residential neighborhood in Monterey Park, California, on April 1, 2026. \\u003ccite>(Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\\u003c/cite>\\u003c/figcaption>\\u003c/figure>\\n\\u003cp>State law requires businesses and groups that engage in lobbying to report their overall quarterly spending, but does not require a breakdown of exactly how much is being spent on each bill. An analysis by CalMatters of lobbying activity for the first six months of 2026 found that utilities, tech companies and their proxies have spent millions of dollars lobbying state lawmakers, with data center bills emerging as a primary focus.\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cp>By Monday, it will be clear which bills made it out of the Legislature and onto Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk for signature or veto by the end of September.\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cp>The fate of the measures could have far-reaching consequences, affecting not only data center development but environmental regulation, utility rates, and how freely California’s tech giants can operate in the state. Nationally, advocates and lawmakers agree that California’s regulation around data centers could be an important bellwether for how similar fights will play out elsewhere.\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cp>“The level of awareness is through the roof, and the level of concern and sensitivity is through the roof — it’s bipartisan, it’s national, and it’s across the board,” California Sen. Steve Padilla, a Democrat from Chula Vista who is author of two pending data center bills, told CalMatters.\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003ch3>Who is lobbying on data centers\\u003c/h3>\\n\\u003cp>During the first half of 2026, Amazon paid more than $500,000 to lobby lawmakers on 33 pieces of legislation, including several data center bills and matters related to antitrust and artificial intelligence. Amazon spent more than $1.7 million lobbying in California last year.\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cp>Meanwhile, AI company Anthropic, which sent its first lobbyists to Sacramento last year, has spent nearly $90,000 to influence decisions made by the California Legislature so far this year and, according to the \\u003ca href=\\\"https://www.ft.com/content/d8a5f95e-3b6d-463a-a848-c9ef8e2394db?syn-25a6b1a6=1\\\">Financial Times\\u003c/a>, nearly tripled its federal lobbying spend in the same time period. Last year, Anthropic spent over $200,000 lobbying in the state.[aside postID=news_12095308 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/OAK-Data-Center-1536x1024.jpg']\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cp>Although Anthropic paid a lobbyist to influence lawmakers decisionmaking on data centers, a spokesperson said the company does not support or oppose any specific bills in California. The company, the spokesperson said, is also interested in working with lawmakers “on AI safety and other relevant issues.” Representatives for Amazon did not respond to a request for comment from CalMatters.\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cp>Utility giant PG&E’s \\u003ca href=\\\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/PDFGen/pdfgen.prg?filingid=3180852&amendid=0\\\">latest filing\\u003c/a> shows that it spent $2.86 million lobbying in California between April and June — its second highest quarter since 1999 (only surpassed since then by 2018, the year of the deadliest wildfire in state history, later linked to its equipment). A spokesperson for PG&E said the company has engaged on a “broad scope” of issues facing the industry during this legislative session, adding that “less than 5% of our spending was on data-center related issues,” amounting to approximately $143,000.\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cp>Other utilities, like Southern California Edison, and unions representing utility workers, like the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, have also invested in lobbying efforts on the bills.\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cp>Utilities providers are particularly motivated to influence bills because the development of new data centers represents a historic opportunity for expansion and grid upgrades, according to Matthew Freedman, senior staff attorney for The Utility Reform Network. Under the current regulatory framework, he said, the cost of expanding transmission lines is spread across all grid users, which means everyday consumers foot the bill.\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cfigure id=\\\"attachment_12064267\\\" class=\\\"wp-caption aligncenter\\\" style=\\\"max-width: 1024px\\\">\\u003ca href=\\\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2172265986.jpg\\\">\\u003cimg loading=\\\"lazy\\\" decoding=\\\"async\\\" class=\\\"wp-image-12064267 size-full\\\" src=\\\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2172265986.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"A panel of multiple wires of different colors inside an office building.\\\" width=\\\"1024\\\" height=\\\"683\\\" srcset=\\\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2172265986.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2172265986-160x107.jpg 160w\\\" sizes=\\\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\\\" />\\u003c/a>\\u003cfigcaption class=\\\"wp-caption-text\\\">Some old and some new wiring connects to various servers at One Wilshire, a high-rise office building in downtown L.A. that has been almost entirely converted into a server farm. \\u003ccite>(Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\\u003c/cite>\\u003c/figcaption>\\u003c/figure>\\n\\u003cp>But several of this year’s data center bills would change that, shifting costs back toward data center operators. “The groups that have been the strongest opponents of the bills this year include the proxies for the data centers and the tech companies,” Freedman said, referring to industry groups such as the Data Center Coalition, Silicon Valley Leadership Group and the California Chamber of Commerce. “They serve as a mouthpiece for the tech industry.”\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cp>Filings do not show that tech giants like Google, OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft are lobbying lawmakers directly on data centers this session. Instead, the business groups Freedman referenced, which represent the Big Tech firms, carry the weight.\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cp>Silicon Valley Leadership Group, which represents companies including Apple and Amazon, has so far spent over $100,000 lobbying on bills including the various data center measures this year and is on track for its highest annual lobbying spend since tracking began in 2005.\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cp>The Data Center Coalition, which counts companies like Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI among its members, has logged its second and third highest-ever spending quarters so far this year. It has spent roughly $60,000 lobbying state lawmakers and the governor’s office to voice opposition to nearly every bill that would regulate data centers.\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003ch3>The bills and the backlash\\u003c/h3>\\n\\u003cp>The measures before the Legislature this session include:\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cul>\\n\\u003cli>Bills to shift electric infrastructure costs toward data center operators and away from residential customers: SB \\u003ca href=\\\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb1168\\\">1168\\u003c/a>, SB \\u003ca href=\\\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb886\\\">886\\u003c/a> and AB \\u003ca href=\\\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab2383\\\">2383\\u003c/a>.\\u003c/li>\\n\\u003cli>Bills mandating disclosures or estimates of water usage (and sometimes usage of other resources): AB \\u003ca href=\\\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab2619\\\">2619\\u003c/a> and two bills that cleared the Legislature Thursday, AB \\u003ca href=\\\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab1577\\\">1577\\u003c/a> and AB \\u003ca href=\\\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab2469\\\">2469\\u003c/a>.\\u003c/li>\\n\\u003cli>SB \\u003ca href=\\\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb887\\\">887\\u003c/a>, which would require all data center projects to undergo environmental reviews and offer fast-tracked approval for facilities that meet standards for water and energy conservation.\\u003c/li>\\n\\u003c/ul>\\n\\u003cp>Business interests opposed to the bills argue they would stifle tech companies’ ability to innovate and compete, tie up critical infrastructure in red tape and unfairly burden the construction of data centers versus the construction of other types of projects.\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cp>Silicon Valley Leadership Group CEO Ahmad Thomas told CalMatters that he sees public debate over data centers as fueled by “strong anti-AI sentiment,” and that industry groups like his aim to “ground the conversation in reality” about the ways consumers rely on data center infrastructure for everyday services.\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cfigure id=\\\"attachment_12063588\\\" class=\\\"wp-caption aligncenter\\\" style=\\\"max-width: 2000px\\\">\\u003ca href=\\\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2242294580-scaled-e1787960077712.jpg\\\">\\u003cimg loading=\\\"lazy\\\" decoding=\\\"async\\\" class=\\\"size-full wp-image-12063588\\\" src=\\\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2242294580-scaled-e1787960077712.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"\\\" width=\\\"2000\\\" height=\\\"1392\\\" />\\u003c/a>\\u003cfigcaption class=\\\"wp-caption-text\\\">An aerial view of a 33 megawatt data center with closed-loop cooling system on October 20, 2025 in Vernon, California. \\u003ccite>(Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)\\u003c/cite>\\u003c/figcaption>\\u003c/figure>\\n\\u003cp>Advocacy groups counter that transparency is vital to protect the environment and public resources, and that everyday consumers should not be affected by increased infrastructure and utilities costs.\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cp>Britt Smith, who is part of a community group organizing against a controversial $2 billion Amazon data center project in Gilroy south of San Jose, said corporate opponents of the bills are “spending so much because there’s so much at stake,” adding, “Our future, our safety, is not for sale.”\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cp>This robust fight stands in stark contrast to last year, when the only bill signed into law was stripped down to just a requirement for state energy regulators to publish an \\u003ca href=\\\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2025/12/data-center-energy-study-california/\\\">environmental impact study\\u003c/a> on data centers’ electricity demand. Newsom also vetoed a water usage disclosure bill, \\u003ca href=\\\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/AB-93-Veto.pdf\\\">citing\\u003c/a> concerns that regulation could stifle AI growth.\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cp>Whether this year’s intensified lobbying will yield similar results remains uncertain, but lawmakers say shifting voter sentiment heading into the midterms has altered the political landscape.\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cp>“When you’re looking down the barrel of public outcry that says we don’t want [data centers] at all, and you’ve got localities that are saying they’re going to ban them, then you know the atmosphere has changed,” Assemblymember Diane Papan, a San Mateo Democrat who authored two of the bills, told CalMatters. “We are in a totally different environment this year.”\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cp>\\u003cem>This article was \\u003ca href=\\\"https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2026/08/california-data-center-backlash-big-tech-lobbying/\\\">originally published on CalMatters\\u003c/a> and was republished under the \\u003ca href=\\\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\\\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\\u003c/a> license.\\u003c/em>\\u003c/p>\\n\",\n\"blocks\": [],\n\"excerpt\": \"As the public turns against data centers in California, business interests are trying to blunt the backlash.\\r\\n\\r\\n\",\n\"status\": \"publish\",\n\"parent\": 0,\n\"modified\": 1787960401,\n\"stats\": {\n\"hasAudio\": false,\n\"hasVideo\": false,\n\"hasChartOrMap\": false,\n\"iframeSrcs\": [],\n\"hasGoogleForm\": false,\n\"hasGallery\": false,\n\"hasHearkenModule\": false,\n\"hasPolis\": false,\n\"paragraphCount\": 31,\n\"wordCount\": 1553\n},\n\"headData\": {\n\"title\": \"The Data Center Backlash Is Here — and Big Tech Is Spending Big to Combat It | KQED\",\n\"description\": \"As the public turns against data centers in California, business interests are trying to blunt the backlash.\\r\\n\\r\\n\",\n\"ogTitle\": \"\",\n\"ogDescription\": \"\",\n\"ogImgId\": \"\",\n\"twTitle\": \"\",\n\"twDescription\": \"\",\n\"twImgId\": \"\",\n\"schema\": {\n\"@context\": \"https://schema.org\",\n\"@type\": \"NewsArticle\",\n\"headline\": \"The Data Center Backlash Is Here — and Big Tech Is Spending Big to Combat It\",\n\"datePublished\": \"2026-08-31T07:00:57-07:00\",\n\"dateModified\": \"2026-08-28T16:40:01-07:00\",\n\"image\": \"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png\",\n\"isAccessibleForFree\": \"True\",\n\"publisher\": {\n\"@type\": \"NewsMediaOrganization\",\n\"@id\": \"https://www.kqed.org/#organization\",\n\"name\": \"KQED\",\n\"logo\": \"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png\",\n\"url\": \"https://www.kqed.org\",\n\"sameAs\": [\n\"https://www.facebook.com/KQED\",\n\"https://twitter.com/KQED\",\n\"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/\",\n\"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial\",\n\"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed\",\n\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw\"\n]\n}\n},\n\"authorsData\": [],\n\"tagData\": []\n},\n\"primaryCategory\": {\n\"termId\": 8,\n\"slug\": \"news\",\n\"name\": \"News\"\n},\n\"sticky\": false,\n\"nprByline\": \" Katherine Ortiz and Khari Johnson, CalMatters\",\n\"templateType\": \"standard\",\n\"featuredImageType\": \"standard\",\n\"excludeFromSiteSearch\": \"Include\",\n\"showOnAuthorArchivePages\": \"No\",\n\"articleAge\": \"0\",\n\"path\": \"/news/12097457/the-data-center-backlash-is-here-and-big-tech-is-spending-big-to-combat-it\",\n\"audioTrackLength\": null,\n\"parsedContent\": [\n{\n\"type\": \"contentString\",\n\"content\": \"\\u003cdiv class=\\\"post-body\\\">\\u003cp>\\u003cp>\\u003c!-- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ -->\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cp>\\u003cem>This story was originally published by \\u003ca href=\\\"https://calmatters.org/\\\">CalMatters\\u003c/a>. \\u003ca href=\\\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\\\">Sign up\\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\\u003c/em>\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cp>Companies backing \\u003ca href=\\\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101914179/bay-area-communities-resist-data-center-boom\\\">data center construction\\u003c/a> are flooding Sacramento with cash, hoping to stop or defang seven bills that would regulate the facilities as they head toward approval in the California Legislature this week.\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cp>The pro-data-center spenders include Big Tech companies like Amazon and AI titan Anthropic. But they are led, dollar-wise, by old school utility giant Pacific Gas & Electric, which earlier this year clocked its second biggest lobbying quarter since 1999.\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cp>The financial push comes a year after four bills that attempted to \\u003ca href=\\\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2025/09/data-centers-california-electricity-rates/\\\">regulate data centers\\u003c/a> died or were diluted after lobbying from the industry. But as artificial intelligence fuels an unprecedented facility buildout, public backlash is transforming data center construction into a major issue for candidates in upcoming elections.\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cp>\\u003c/p>\\u003c/div>\",\n\"attributes\": {\n\"named\": {},\n\"numeric\": []\n}\n},\n{\n\"type\": \"component\",\n\"content\": \"\",\n\"name\": \"ad\",\n\"attributes\": {\n\"named\": {\n\"label\": \"fullwidth\"\n},\n\"numeric\": [\n\"fullwidth\"\n]\n}\n},\n{\n\"type\": \"contentString\",\n\"content\": \"\\u003cdiv class=\\\"post-body\\\">\\u003cp>\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cp>A \\u003ca href=\\\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/709772/americans-oppose-data-centers-area.aspx\\\">May Gallup poll\\u003c/a> found seven in 10 Americans oppose data center construction in their communities, while a Public Policy Institute of California poll in July found \\u003ca href=\\\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/data-center-ppic-survey/\\\">similar opposition statewide.\\u003c/a> Rising public anxiety over utility costs, water use, and grid strain has driven California lawmakers to propose strict new data center rules — igniting a high-stakes lobbying push by the industry.\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cp>Hundreds of cities have considered or passed project bans this year, including in Monterey Park, where voters passed a ballot measure to permanently ban data centers, and Bay Area cities like Pittsburg, which backtracked on approvals following public outcry.\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cfigure id=\\\"attachment_12089535\\\" class=\\\"wp-caption aligncenter\\\" style=\\\"max-width: 2000px\\\">\\u003ca href=\\\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/MontereyParkGetty.jpg\\\">\\u003cimg loading=\\\"lazy\\\" decoding=\\\"async\\\" class=\\\"size-full wp-image-12089535\\\" src=\\\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/MontereyParkGetty.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"\\\" width=\\\"2000\\\" height=\\\"1333\\\" srcset=\\\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/MontereyParkGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/MontereyParkGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/MontereyParkGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\\\" sizes=\\\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\\\" />\\u003c/a>\\u003cfigcaption class=\\\"wp-caption-text\\\">Signs of protest pepper front yards in a nearby residential neighborhood in Monterey Park, California, on April 1, 2026. \\u003ccite>(Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\\u003c/cite>\\u003c/figcaption>\\u003c/figure>\\n\\u003cp>State law requires businesses and groups that engage in lobbying to report their overall quarterly spending, but does not require a breakdown of exactly how much is being spent on each bill. An analysis by CalMatters of lobbying activity for the first six months of 2026 found that utilities, tech companies and their proxies have spent millions of dollars lobbying state lawmakers, with data center bills emerging as a primary focus.\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cp>By Monday, it will be clear which bills made it out of the Legislature and onto Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk for signature or veto by the end of September.\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cp>The fate of the measures could have far-reaching consequences, affecting not only data center development but environmental regulation, utility rates, and how freely California’s tech giants can operate in the state. Nationally, advocates and lawmakers agree that California’s regulation around data centers could be an important bellwether for how similar fights will play out elsewhere.\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cp>“The level of awareness is through the roof, and the level of concern and sensitivity is through the roof — it’s bipartisan, it’s national, and it’s across the board,” California Sen. Steve Padilla, a Democrat from Chula Vista who is author of two pending data center bills, told CalMatters.\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003ch3>Who is lobbying on data centers\\u003c/h3>\\n\\u003cp>During the first half of 2026, Amazon paid more than $500,000 to lobby lawmakers on 33 pieces of legislation, including several data center bills and matters related to antitrust and artificial intelligence. Amazon spent more than $1.7 million lobbying in California last year.\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cp>Meanwhile, AI company Anthropic, which sent its first lobbyists to Sacramento last year, has spent nearly $90,000 to influence decisions made by the California Legislature so far this year and, according to the \\u003ca href=\\\"https://www.ft.com/content/d8a5f95e-3b6d-463a-a848-c9ef8e2394db?syn-25a6b1a6=1\\\">Financial Times\\u003c/a>, nearly tripled its federal lobbying spend in the same time period. Last year, Anthropic spent over $200,000 lobbying in the state.\\u003c/p>\\u003c/div>\",\n\"attributes\": {\n\"named\": {},\n\"numeric\": []\n}\n},\n{\n\"type\": \"component\",\n\"content\": \"\",\n\"name\": \"aside\",\n\"attributes\": {\n\"named\": {\n\"postid\": \"news_12095308\",\n\"hero\": \"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/OAK-Data-Center-1536x1024.jpg\",\n\"label\": \"\"\n},\n\"numeric\": []\n}\n},\n{\n\"type\": \"contentString\",\n\"content\": \"\\u003cdiv class=\\\"post-body\\\">\\u003cp>\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cp>Although Anthropic paid a lobbyist to influence lawmakers decisionmaking on data centers, a spokesperson said the company does not support or oppose any specific bills in California. The company, the spokesperson said, is also interested in working with lawmakers “on AI safety and other relevant issues.” Representatives for Amazon did not respond to a request for comment from CalMatters.\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cp>Utility giant PG&E’s \\u003ca href=\\\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/PDFGen/pdfgen.prg?filingid=3180852&amendid=0\\\">latest filing\\u003c/a> shows that it spent $2.86 million lobbying in California between April and June — its second highest quarter since 1999 (only surpassed since then by 2018, the year of the deadliest wildfire in state history, later linked to its equipment). A spokesperson for PG&E said the company has engaged on a “broad scope” of issues facing the industry during this legislative session, adding that “less than 5% of our spending was on data-center related issues,” amounting to approximately $143,000.\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cp>Other utilities, like Southern California Edison, and unions representing utility workers, like the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, have also invested in lobbying efforts on the bills.\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cp>Utilities providers are particularly motivated to influence bills because the development of new data centers represents a historic opportunity for expansion and grid upgrades, according to Matthew Freedman, senior staff attorney for The Utility Reform Network. Under the current regulatory framework, he said, the cost of expanding transmission lines is spread across all grid users, which means everyday consumers foot the bill.\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cfigure id=\\\"attachment_12064267\\\" class=\\\"wp-caption aligncenter\\\" style=\\\"max-width: 1024px\\\">\\u003ca href=\\\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2172265986.jpg\\\">\\u003cimg loading=\\\"lazy\\\" decoding=\\\"async\\\" class=\\\"wp-image-12064267 size-full\\\" src=\\\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2172265986.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"A panel of multiple wires of different colors inside an office building.\\\" width=\\\"1024\\\" height=\\\"683\\\" srcset=\\\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2172265986.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2172265986-160x107.jpg 160w\\\" sizes=\\\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\\\" />\\u003c/a>\\u003cfigcaption class=\\\"wp-caption-text\\\">Some old and some new wiring connects to various servers at One Wilshire, a high-rise office building in downtown L.A. that has been almost entirely converted into a server farm. \\u003ccite>(Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\\u003c/cite>\\u003c/figcaption>\\u003c/figure>\\n\\u003cp>But several of this year’s data center bills would change that, shifting costs back toward data center operators. “The groups that have been the strongest opponents of the bills this year include the proxies for the data centers and the tech companies,” Freedman said, referring to industry groups such as the Data Center Coalition, Silicon Valley Leadership Group and the California Chamber of Commerce. “They serve as a mouthpiece for the tech industry.”\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cp>Filings do not show that tech giants like Google, OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft are lobbying lawmakers directly on data centers this session. Instead, the business groups Freedman referenced, which represent the Big Tech firms, carry the weight.\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cp>Silicon Valley Leadership Group, which represents companies including Apple and Amazon, has so far spent over $100,000 lobbying on bills including the various data center measures this year and is on track for its highest annual lobbying spend since tracking began in 2005.\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cp>The Data Center Coalition, which counts companies like Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI among its members, has logged its second and third highest-ever spending quarters so far this year. It has spent roughly $60,000 lobbying state lawmakers and the governor’s office to voice opposition to nearly every bill that would regulate data centers.\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003ch3>The bills and the backlash\\u003c/h3>\\n\\u003cp>The measures before the Legislature this session include:\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cul>\\n\\u003cli>Bills to shift electric infrastructure costs toward data center operators and away from residential customers: SB \\u003ca href=\\\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb1168\\\">1168\\u003c/a>, SB \\u003ca href=\\\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb886\\\">886\\u003c/a> and AB \\u003ca href=\\\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab2383\\\">2383\\u003c/a>.\\u003c/li>\\n\\u003cli>Bills mandating disclosures or estimates of water usage (and sometimes usage of other resources): AB \\u003ca href=\\\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab2619\\\">2619\\u003c/a> and two bills that cleared the Legislature Thursday, AB \\u003ca href=\\\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab1577\\\">1577\\u003c/a> and AB \\u003ca href=\\\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab2469\\\">2469\\u003c/a>.\\u003c/li>\\n\\u003cli>SB \\u003ca href=\\\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb887\\\">887\\u003c/a>, which would require all data center projects to undergo environmental reviews and offer fast-tracked approval for facilities that meet standards for water and energy conservation.\\u003c/li>\\n\\u003c/ul>\\n\\u003cp>Business interests opposed to the bills argue they would stifle tech companies’ ability to innovate and compete, tie up critical infrastructure in red tape and unfairly burden the construction of data centers versus the construction of other types of projects.\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cp>Silicon Valley Leadership Group CEO Ahmad Thomas told CalMatters that he sees public debate over data centers as fueled by “strong anti-AI sentiment,” and that industry groups like his aim to “ground the conversation in reality” about the ways consumers rely on data center infrastructure for everyday services.\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cfigure id=\\\"attachment_12063588\\\" class=\\\"wp-caption aligncenter\\\" style=\\\"max-width: 2000px\\\">\\u003ca href=\\\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2242294580-scaled-e1787960077712.jpg\\\">\\u003cimg loading=\\\"lazy\\\" decoding=\\\"async\\\" class=\\\"size-full wp-image-12063588\\\" src=\\\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2242294580-scaled-e1787960077712.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"\\\" width=\\\"2000\\\" height=\\\"1392\\\" />\\u003c/a>\\u003cfigcaption class=\\\"wp-caption-text\\\">An aerial view of a 33 megawatt data center with closed-loop cooling system on October 20, 2025 in Vernon, California. \\u003ccite>(Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)\\u003c/cite>\\u003c/figcaption>\\u003c/figure>\\n\\u003cp>Advocacy groups counter that transparency is vital to protect the environment and public resources, and that everyday consumers should not be affected by increased infrastructure and utilities costs.\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cp>Britt Smith, who is part of a community group organizing against a controversial $2 billion Amazon data center project in Gilroy south of San Jose, said corporate opponents of the bills are “spending so much because there’s so much at stake,” adding, “Our future, our safety, is not for sale.”\\u003c/p>\\n\\u003cp>This robust fight stands in stark contrast to last year, when the only bill signed into law was stripped down to just a requirement for state energy regulators to publish an \\u003ca href=\\\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2025/12/data-center-energy-study-california/\\\">environmental impact study\\u003c/a> on data centers’ electricity demand. 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