WI-01 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
Chairs the House Financial Services subcommittee on Digital Assets, FinTech & AI. Financial-stake story (context only): owns stock in companies powering data centers ($15-50K WEC-adjacent per disclosure, per Milwaukee Courier); $13,000 from WEC Energy Group 2018-2026; DCCC attacks him for data-center-developer PAC money and the $80B tax-breaks vote (oppo framing, context only). District hosts Microsoft's Mount Pleasant 'world's most powerful AI datacenter' (Racine County).
Sources & Verified Statements
“need for data centers in the U.S. versus China or Russia”
“getting better (on water)”
Candidate Position
Berman campaigns against special tax breaks and public subsidies for data centers, demanding that tech companies cover their own energy infrastructure without hiking utility bills for Wisconsin residents or threatening public lands.
Sources & Verified Statements
“They use our water and our power, take our land, we get the bill… Wisconsin isn't for sale. We must end special data center tax breaks and protect our rural lands.”