Ford Copple
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Building a Human-Centered Digital Future, Part 2: Data Center Job Creation
Data centers create jobs in construction and skilled trades during development, followed by permanent, often high-paying technical, maintenance, and energy-sector jobs.
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Infographic: Data Center Job Creation
This infographic shows how data centers positively impact job growth.
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Ford Copple Statement for the Record to the U.S. Senate HELP Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety: The Impact of AI on the Workforce
Additionally, new data centers are providing real workforce benefits for Americans.
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Opinion: Don’t fall for data center ‘Slopaganda’
Left unaddressed, fear and polarization will win over facts and principles, resulting in misinformed Utahns, degraded dialogue and missed opportunities.
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Building a Human-Centered Digital Future, Part 1: Data Centers
This brief seeks to provide a basic understanding of data centers so that voters and policymakers can make better-informed, more thoughtful policy decisions.
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Volunteerism and Federalism: What local civic culture can teach us about elections
Americans trust locally run elections far more than national ones. Centralizing election administration in Washington could weaken trust and undermine federalism.
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Gen Z to Gen Z: We need more election officials
Polling shows Gen Z is losing faith in voting. Expanding education and career paths in election administration could rebuild trust and strengthen American elections.
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Utah Election Reforms That Win Public Trust
Utah voters are less confident in elections and less willing to re-elect their legislators when the law burdens their right to cast their ballot by mail, and more confident and willing to re-elect their legislators when voters must prove they…
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25 Ways AI is Helping People Flourish
While debate over AI in news and social media often focuses on controversy, AI is creating positive, pro-human change behind the scenes.
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Survey: Utah voters think elected officials, not judges, should choose congressional maps
A new survey reveals Utah voters want elected officials, not judges, leading redistricting, with a commission providing support.

