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Reilly Neill for U.S. Senate US Inactive

REILLY FOR MONTANA

ad creative

A Call on Our Water

When it comes to data centers, Montanans deserve clear answers.

Ad copy

A data center near Butte uses as much electricity as the city of Helena, #Montana. The Quantica Center near Billings is poised to use more electricity than the entire state of Montana. Who carries the cost? Who reaps the benefit? https://reillyneill.substack.com/p/a-call-on-our-water

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Performance proxies

Overall score30.0/100
Spend / Reach / Long. / Eff.0.0 · 49.2 · 1.1 · 69.7
Spend range<USD 99
Impressions6,000 – 6,999
CPM (≈ $/1k impr)USD 7.62
Est. audience size
Days live5 (2025-12-27 → 2026-01-01)
Created2025-12-27
Creative variants1 body · 1 headline
Platformsfacebook, instagram
Languagesen
CandidateMT — Reilly Neill
Surfaced by“senate:Reilly Neill”

🧠 AI analysis

Issueenergy environment
Framingissue advocacy
Message typeawareness
Emotional appealurgency
Production tiersemi pro
Who picturednone
Symbolsfarm rural
Call to actionlearn more
Standout elementLonely weathered dock structure on a frozen Montana lake evoking the fragility of local resources
TacticThe ad uses a rhetorical 'who pays / who benefits' framing to stoke populist concern over out-of-state tech corporations exploiting Montana's energy grid and water, driving readers to a Substack deep-dive for credibility.

Where it ran (delivery by region)

Montana10.1%
California6.3%
Washington5.8%
Michigan5.0%
Florida4.5%
Oregon4.1%
Wisconsin3.8%

Who saw it (delivery)

18-24 · female 0.1%
45-54 · male 2.6%
65+ · male 32.9%
65+ · female 39.6%
55-64 · unknown 0.2%
55-64 · male 8.2%
55-64 · female 9.1%
45-54 · unknown 0.2%
45-54 · female 2.5%
18-24 · male 0.0%
35-44 · unknown 0.0%
35-44 · male 1.5%
35-44 · female 1.1%
25-34 · unknown 0.0%
25-34 · male 0.5%
25-34 · female 0.6%
65+ · unknown 0.8%

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