CA-07 House
Side-by-side comparison of candidate stances on AI hyperscale data center moratoriums, electricity rate hikes, water depletion, and Super PAC funding.
Candidate Position
Doris Matsui insists that tech companies use clean energy and pay their full infrastructure costs, declaring that everyday ratepayers should never subsidize corporate power bills.
Sources & Verified Statements
“Nobody should be paying higher energy bills because of data centers. Tech companies are making money hand over fist. They can afford to pay for the necessary upgrades to our electric grid to support their data centers.”
“We shouldn't be cutting down healthy forest or filling in wetlands to build data centers. We should be building these facilities on brownfields or other disturbed lands.”
“The American people are fed up and it's our job to protect our constituents.”
Candidate Position
Mai Vang actively opposes subsidizing billionaire tech developers, demanding state and local limits on data center power consumption and utility rate hikes.
Sources & Verified Statements
“Mai Vang knows that data centers are driving up costs for regular Californians, damaging the environment and infrastructure, and over-consuming natural resources. That's why she will fight for a moratorium against constructing any new data centers until real safeguards are in place that ban data centers and utility companies from passing off higher costs onto regular people, require data centers to pay for any damage they do to the energy grid or other infrastructure, and hold data centers accountable for any damage they do to the environment and drinking water.”
“I'm glad the state is stepping up but Sacramento needs to do more to stop billionaires from hurting our communities and protect rate payers from rising costs.”