Editorial illustration depicting Mike Schlossberg's campaign as bankrolled by data center and AI industry money

The other candidate

Schlossberg is clearing the way for data centers across PA.And guess who's filling his pockets while he does it?

He co-sponsored the bill that would let data centers like Atlas skip local zoning anywhere in Pennsylvania. His campaign takes money from the utilities that profit every time one gets built. Here's the paper trail.

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The choice on the ballot

One of them showed up before it was popular. One of them co-sponsored the bill that helps the Atlas data center anyway.

Caren Lowrey

Neighbor, not a name on a PAC list

Attended township planning meetings on the Atlas data center before she was a candidate
Campaign funded almost entirely by individual, local contributions
Position: zoning decisions belong with the township, not a state board
Lifelong South Whitehall resident, Parkland graduate, parent in the district

Mike Schlossberg (incumbent)

Co-sponsor of the bill that helps the Atlas data center

Co-sponsored HB 502, creating a state board that can bypass local zoning for data-center power projects
Campaign takes significant money from political action committees
Includes PAC contributions from PPL and FirstEnergy — electric utilities positioned to profit from data-center power demand
Seven-term incumbent; Majority Whip in the state House

Straight from his own filing

What his campaign finance report actually shows

This isn't speculation — it's Schlossberg's own campaign finance report, filed with the PA Department of State. We're linking the primary source below so you can check it yourself.

$1,000

From PPL's "People for Good Government" corporate PAC — PPL is the electric utility that would power the Atlas data center.

PA Dept. of State, Campaign Finance Report #435870

$500

From FirstEnergy's corporate PAC — another major electric utility with a direct financial stake in hyperscale data-center growth.

PA Dept. of State, Campaign Finance Report #435870

HB 502

The bill Schlossberg co-sponsored, which would let a new state board approve data-center power facilities and override local zoning.

PA General Assembly

To be precise about what we do and don't know: we have not found a direct contribution to Schlossberg's campaign from a named data-center developer or AI company. What we found, and what's shown above, is campaign cash from the electric utilities that would profit from the power demand a project like the Atlas data center creates — alongside his co-sponsorship of a bill that would make projects like it easier to build over local objections. HB 502 has not yet come to a floor vote. We think the co-sponsorship is worth knowing regardless. (This covers one reporting period — see the note on our source below.)

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