The massive server-filled data centers behind each ChatGPT prompt and Amazon purchase are ballooning into a political headache the White House and the tech industry can’t ignore.

It’s an issue spanning Arizona to Virginia to Wisconsin to Florida, and sparking fights about electricity costs and jobs. Yet even as these complexes spread quickly to keep up with the artificial intelligence boom, there’s very little public information that attempts to explain what people think of these projects.

POLITICO moved to fill that gap.

Our polling of more than 2,000 people found that nearly half of Americans expect the explosion of these projects to be a campaign issue in their area in the next five years — setting up the midterms as a new test of voter appetites for the build-out and energy costs of AI.

The POLITICO Poll also found that many Americans are willing to support a new data center in their area even if it hikes their electric bills a bit. Many respondents also acknowledged that they don’t know much about the facilities — but their views swing noticeably if data centers are associated with President Donald Trump, a political issue the industry will likely have to confront.