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How the coverage framed it

With a bias spread of just 0.5 points, coverage of this story was largely uniform across outlets, all converging on the shared premise that public opposition to data centers is significant and growing. The main variation was tonal rather than ideological: NBC's framing — "As Trump pushes for data centers, voters in key midterm races say they don't want them" — foregrounded community concerns and used the word "pushes," while Forbes used the phrase "Trump Blasts Communities," both of which scorers flagged as carrying mild critical weight toward Trump's position. Vox stood apart by characterizing the opposition as "bringing Americans together," an ironic but factually grounded framing that avoided any ideological signal. No outlet meaningfully championed data centers or dismissed public opposition. The narrow spread reflects a story where polling data and community resistance provided a largely shared factual anchor that left little room for divergent framing.