MADISON, Wis. — Just before running for governor, MAGA extremist Tom Tiffany started trying to stack the deck for big tech from the halls of Congress. Roughly seven months after casting the deciding vote to allow a 10 year moratorium on AI regulation, he passed the SPEED Act, allowing data centers to steamroll their way into local communities unregulated—just like they’re doing in Wisconsin.
“MAGA extremist Tom Tiffany has spent the last year in Congress trying to make it easier for data centers to take over our communities with little regulation—as governor he’d make it even easier for them to drive up Wisconsinites’ electricity bills and take their drinking water,” said Democratic Party of Wisconsin spokesperson Emily Stuckey. “After nearly 20 years in office Congressman Tom Tiffany’s priority is doing the bidding of Donald Trump and his corporate special interest buddies, and as governor we know he’d bring his extreme MAGA agenda to our state.”
The SPEED Act, passed in December of 2025, “[reformed] U.S. permitting law to speed up the build-out of infrastructure key to artificial intelligence.” Tiffany’s has never sponsored a single piece of legislation that would regulate the building of data centers.
