Where do Alaska’s four governor candidates stand on data centers?

By: James Brooks

Outlets: Alaska Beacon

Published: September 19, 2026

Words: 991

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 3 days ago

On the day that his campaign announced it had accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations from employees of a California-based artificial intelligence company, Democratic governor candidate Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins said that if elected, he will seek to temporarily ban new computing data centers in Alaska.

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