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Trump likes data centers. Congress seems stuck. The midterms could deliver a verdict.
A poll shows just 11% of Americans back local data centers, as Trump attacks critics and Senate Democrats block Husted's ratepayer bill.
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Developer behind proposed Portage County data center gave Heidi Workman $6,589 eight days before panel appointment
Conrad Geis made Workman’s second-largest campaign contribution after his company sought to lift a Shalersville moratorium so it could market land for data centers.
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Mike Dovilla backed Ohio data center tax breaks, collected thousands from industry lobbyists
Records show Dovilla backed three separate measures expanding the tax break before lobbyists for QTS Data Centers gave his campaign nearly $3,000.
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Husted took $630K from data center interests
Husted personally championed a sales tax exemption that helped bring a Google data center to New Albany, and his top aide has taken $94,000 in donations.
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FirstEnergy wants rate hike as consumers in Ohio face record prices
Consumer advocates say the utility tied to the state’s largest public corruption case needs to rebuild trust and be held accountable.
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Ohio now has over 125 active moratoriums on data centers. See where they are.
A BGSU poll finds 78% of Ohioans back the pauses, as developers sue Urbana, Lordstown and other cities over shifting local rules.
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Amy Acton pledges no individual stocks as governor, challenges Ramaswamy to sell data-center holdings
Ramaswamy has not said whether he will divest from NVIDIA, Microsoft and Amazon holdings after softening his earlier praise for Ohio's data-center boom.
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Data centers are on the November ballot in these 18 Ohio communities
One petition organizer in Piqua turned health fears from a battery plant into a mayoral recall bid after Meta proposed a 1,400-megawatt facility there.
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Ramaswamy runs to 'fix Ohio' after 30 years of Republican dominance in state government
The GOP nominee attacks Ohio’s COVID response and promises to fix Medicaid, property taxes, electric bills, universities and data-center policy. Republicans have dominated Ohio state government since the mid-1990s, and his running mate now leads the Senate.
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Wood County residents rally against Jon Husted as $800 million Meta data center rises near Bowling Green
The Republican senator spent years championing Ohio’s data center buildout. At a Bowling Green rally this week, residents pointed to rising electric bills and accused Husted of helping create a problem he is now trying to rein in.
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Jon Husted said replacing workers with robots is ‘not a bad thing’ in resurfaced video
The Ohio Republican made the comments while directing the state office responsible for workforce transformation. Husted later helped promote data centers, artificial intelligence and robotics across Ohio.
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Vivek Ramaswamy could turn Ohio into America’s data center capital, all while holding investments across the industry
As other states slam the brakes on hyperscale data centers, Ohio already has nearly 18 gigawatts under contract with one utility alone. Ramaswamy wants the projects to keep coming.
