What Amendment 5 ad gets wrong about Missouri data centers

By: Jason Hancock

Outlets: Missouri Independent

Published: June 29, 2026

Words: 745

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 3 days ago

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There’s a television ad making the rounds for Amendment 5, and it would like you to be angry at a hum.

“That hum is the sound of big tech making money from online gambling, from porn,” a narrator says over footage of server racks. Data centers, the ad goes on, are “money machines making millions every minute,” shielded by a “1917 tax code” that lets …

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