As recent reporting from NBC News exposes DC insider and Big Utility lobbyist Michael Whatley for siding with data centers over North Carolinians to spike his stock portfolio and benefit his bottom line, Whatley is in the spotlight for claiming the public backlash to data centers is “not organic.”

CNN, Kara Swisher: “Entirely inaccurate […] So Michael Whatley doesn’t know what he’s – he’s just, what am I going to say? He’s lying. He’s lying about that. It’s not true. This is a real grassroots situation.”

NewsNation, Leland Vittert: “Republicans, they’ve got a new plan to deal with Americans mad as hell over data centers. It’s a bold – give them that – new political initiative to tell Americans that they are wrong. Here’s Michael Whatley, Republican Senate candidate in North Carolina, rolling out the strategy…True genius, right there.”

Whatley has up to $1.6 million invested in the data center industry, including Duke Energy, and North Carolinians have been speaking out against data centers for months and voicing concern over rising energy costs – all while Whatley personally profits. 

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