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Dan Sullivan

Republican · AK Senate SUPPORTS DATA CENTERS
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Position on Hyperscale Data Centers

  • Incumbent U.S. Senator serving as Congress’s foremost booster of Arctic data centers, actively pitching tech CEOs: “We want you guys to all come up to Alaska with your data centers. We've got a lot of cold weather, we got gas, we got land, we got water, we got it all. Come on up” (The Alaska Current).
  • Confirmed he pressured the Pentagon: “The Air Force, at my strong urging, put out a request for information on doing this in Alaska for data centers. This is a big idea... I've been pitching this to everybody in the country who will listen” (The Alaska Current).
  • Heavily criticized over family conflicts: holds ~$5,000,000 in stock in family company RPM International (Rust-Oleum), whose CEO brother noted on earnings calls that data-center specialty coatings represent a major corporate growth driver (The Alaska Current). His net worth has roughly tripled during his Senate tenure amid scrutiny of well-timed stock trades (The Alaska Current / Newsweek).
  • Frames AI compute infrastructure strictly as an energy monetization vehicle to drive Cook Inlet and North Slope natural gas production.

Verified Quotes & Evidence

"The Air Force, at my strong urging, put out a request for information on doing this in Alaska for data centers. This is a big idea... I've been pitching this to everybody in the country who will listen."
Date: 2026-10-20
→ Source: The Alaska Current
"We want you guys to all come up to Alaska with your data centers. We've got a lot of cold weather, we got gas, we got land, we got water, we got it all. Come on up."
Date: 2025-09-12
→ Source: Senate Hearing via The Alaska Current