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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of this story was largely uniform across outlets, with a bias spread of just 0.0 points and all headlines clustering near center. Every outlet employed the word "backlash" without ideological coloring, treating public and political opposition to data centers as a straightforward factual phenomenon rather than framing it through a partisan lens. The modest variation that does exist is tonal rather than ideological: NPR's "Voters are fed up with data centers. Both parties are trying to cash in for midterms" is the most colloquial, using the informal "fed up" and the slightly skeptical "cash in," while The Atlantic's spare "The Backlash Against Data Centers" and CNBC's more explanatory "transforming rural land markets — and fueling a backlash" reflect differences in editorial style rather than political orientation. No outlet assigned blame to a particular party or ideology, and no headline framed data centers as either an economic benefit to be defended or an environmental threat to be condemned.