{"id":334004,"date":"2026-08-13T14:46:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T14:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clevescene.com\/?p=334004"},"modified":"2026-08-13T14:47:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T14:47:51","slug":"candidates-highlight-data-center-plans-next-ohio-governor-will-select-regulators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clevescene.com\/news\/ohio-news\/candidates-highlight-data-center-plans-next-ohio-governor-will-select-regulators\/","title":{"rendered":"Candidates Highlight Data Center Plans. Next Ohio Governor Will Select Regulators"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ohio\u2019s two candidates for governor have conflicting ideas of what they would like to see happen to future data centers, which have become a political lightning rod in this year\u2019s November election.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ohio\u2019s next governor will appoint the five members of the Public Utilities Commission, which sets utility rates and set the parameters for data centers opening in cities across the state.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ohio Democratic candidate for governor Dr. Amy Acton announced on July 27 she supports a conditional moratorium on data centers \u201cif requirements on costs, union labor, transparency, environmental standards, community benefit agreements, and development are not met,\u201d she said in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/actonforgovernor.com\/dr-amy-acton-announces-support-for-conditional-moratorium-on-data-centers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Innovation Ohio, a progressive policy advocacy organization, said Acton has a strong data center proposal.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cRequiring data centers to really pay their own money in terms of electricity, electricity in terms of really protecting the environment, protecting water, making sure workers are getting a fair shake out of these fields, that to us is really leveling the playing field and ensuring that going forward,\u201d said Innovation Ohio President Michael McGovern.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ohio Republican candidate for governor Vivek Ramaswamy announced his three-fold data center plan on Aug. 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf a data center is built in your community, then (1) you will no longer have to pay for your home\u2019s electricity, (2) you will pay lower property taxes, and (3) the data center will be required to abide by all air and water quality standards without exception, and we will take the necessary steps to protect Ohio\u2019s fertile farmland,\u201d he said in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/VivekGRamaswamy\/status\/2085345131696120276\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">post on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf any one of these three conditions is not met, the data center won\u2019t be built. Period,\u201d&nbsp;Ramaswamy said in his statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">McGovern called Ramaswamy\u2019s idea for data centers to pay for citizen\u2019s electric bills \u201cutter nonsense.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe see Vivek Ramaswamy\u2019s plan that\u2019s just like absolute nonsense in coming up with these wild ideas that don\u2019t make any sense and aren\u2019t based in any actual policy research, and instead are sort of just these silly promises,\u201d McGovern said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ramaswamy\u2019s plan does not specify how many miles away from a data center someone must be living to get their electricity for free.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere\u2019s no detail, there\u2019s no substance,\u201d McGovern said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ramaswamy said last year it\u2019s a \u201cgood thing\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/VivekGRamaswamy\/status\/1905275520914497873\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AI data centers moving to&nbsp;<\/a>Ohio.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI want the sectors of the future to come here, but that will make a level of demand on our electric grid of a kind that we have not seen in the history of our state \u2026 right at a time when we\u2019ve also cut off and reduced the supply of base load power generation, shutting down coal plants that, on my watch, would have remained open,\u201d Ramaswamy said in a video posted to X in March 2025.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ramaswamy has a financial stake in data centers by having financial positions in the chips that power AI to the companies that run the data centers, according to a report released earlier this year from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/67dc94ee5e35aa4eb80d7b0c\/t\/6a0c866c756be34efdecc230\/1779205741706\/Vivek+Data+Center+Portfolio+May+2026.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Innovation Ohio<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe has rolled out a plan that is unserious and does not really tackle this vital issue for Ohioans, and he is personally getting richer off of data centers,\u201d McGovern said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe\u2019s making money here, and all of a sudden that\u2019s a political problem, so he\u2019s walking that back.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ohio has more than&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.datacentermap.com\/usa\/ohio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">200 data centers<\/a>, the sixth-highest state in the country, according to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/short-reads\/2026\/04\/13\/most-new-data-centers-in-the-us-are-coming-to-rural-areas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pew Research Center<\/a>. Most of the data centers are in central Ohio. Cincinnati has 26 and Cleveland has 22, according to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.datacentermap.com\/usa\/ohio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Data Center Map<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ohioans are seeing increased electric bills. The average Ohio residential utility bills are projected to be about&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ohiocapitaljournal.com\/2026\/07\/07\/ohios-summer-electric-bills-could-top-800-report-says\/\">$800 for the summer<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 a 17% increase compared to last summer, according to a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thirdway.org\/blog\/summer-preview-new-analysis-shows-ohioans-should-expect-major-price-spikes-on-summer-electricity-bills\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report by Third Way<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lawmakers at the Ohio Statehouse have yet to<a href=\"https:\/\/ohiocapitaljournal.com\/2026\/06\/11\/ohio-lawmakers-fail-to-reach-agreement-on-data-center-regulations\/\">&nbsp;pass any data center legislation<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/conserveohio.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Conserve Ohio<\/a>, the grassroots organization behind a proposed constitutional amendment to ban new data centers, is collecting signatures to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ohiocapitaljournal.com\/2026\/06\/19\/ohio-proposed-constitutional-amendment-to-ban-data-centers-will-not-be-on-this-years-ballot\/\">make the 2027 ballot<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Originally published by the <a href=\"https:\/\/ohiocapitaljournal.com\/2026\/08\/12\/candidates-highlight-data-center-plans-next-ohio-governor-will-select-regulators\/\">Ohio Capital Journal.<\/a> Republished here with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio\u2019s two candidates for governor have conflicting ideas of what they would like to see happen to future data centers, which have become a political lightning rod in this year\u2019s November election.&nbsp; Ohio\u2019s next governor will appoint the five members of the Public Utilities Commission, which sets utility rates and set the parameters for data [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1923,"featured_media":334006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-08-13T14:46:54Z","apple_news_api_id":"1987cb94-98c9-4530-89ae-039287193004","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-08-13T14:47:49Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AGYfLlJjJRTCJrgOShxkwBA","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":["https:\/\/news-api.apple.com\/sections\/09551bb6-65e4-48a4-92e6-844c5c570ad6"],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"newspack_collection_is_cover_story":false,"newspack_collection_post_order":0,"_newspack_byline_active":false,"_newspack_byline":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"Acton calls for conditional moratorium while Ramaswamy says he wants free electricity for those near data centers\n","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,107],"tags":[2019,1271,40496],"newspack_collection_taxonomy":[],"newspack_collection_section":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[184],"class_list":["post-334004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-ohio-news","tag-amy-acton","tag-ohio-data-centers","tag-vivek-ramaswamy","entry"],"apple_news_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.2 (Yoast SEO v28.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Candidates Highlight Data Center Plans. 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