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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of this story was largely uniform, with a modest spread of 1.5 points across outlets. Most headlines adopted neutral, descriptive framing — financial reporting on debt and local opposition, polling data on public opinion, or straightforward legislative language such as "blocks bill meant to lower electricity prices." The clearest framing divergence appeared at the right end of the scale, where Fox News used competitive national-security language — "If we don't build the infrastructure, China will" — casting data center investment as an urgent geopolitical imperative rather than a domestic policy or economic question. Forbes offered a mild variation, framing tax revenue as actively "beating" political opposition, which implicitly favored infrastructure expansion. These differences in emphasis are notable but modest; the bulk of coverage treated the story as a financial and regulatory matter without strong ideological loading.