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Darline Graham Gets Help From the Data Center Industry in South Carolina Senate Race

According to the excerpt, the New York Times reports that a super PAC aligned with the data center industry has made its first bet on Darline Graham, a Republican in an unexpectedly tight South Carolina Senate race, as political fights over artificial intelligence accelerate.

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Why it matters

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What it means for you

A new political fund backed by the data center industry is spending in a close South Carolina Senate race.

For lawmakers

A super PAC aligned with data center firms has entered a Senate race, showing the AI industry's growing electoral spending.

The question it raises

Should the industries that build AI infrastructure help pick the officials who regulate it?

The record

Questions
Who can demand evidence, delay a release or stop an unsafe deployment?
People
Darline Graham (About them, Republican Senate candidate, South Carolina) · Theodore Schleifer (Wrote it) · Emily Davies (Wrote it)
What we read
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The Radar, run of October 27, 2026, via nyt-technology (tier 2: a major outlet’s own reporting)
Cite this
The New York Times, “Darline Graham Gets Help From the Data Center Industry in South Carolina Senate Race”, October 26, 2026. Entry in the Ctrl AI Base, https://ctrlai.com/base/nyt-2026-10-26-darline-graham-data-center-super-pac
Our notesLight lane: triage excerpt only. The super PAC's name is not in the excerpt.