Fact-check: Did data centers cause US electricity bills to rise 267% over five years?
"If you live near one of these large data centers, your electricity bills over the last five years have gone up by as much as 267%," Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said in a June 5 social media post.
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Congress wrote and passed the 1965 law "because of the Democrat party at the time, especially in the South, who were racially gerrymandering districts to disenfranchise Black voters," said U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Florida.
President Donald Trump ordered a renovation of the National Mall's Reflecting Pool, but has exaggerated the pool's size, the renovation timeline and costs. He also changed his tune on the project's central contractor.
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