Ohio Gov. Candidate Amy Acton on Data Centers: Everyone Deserves to Know What’s Coming in Their Community and Have Some Say in It

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ACTON: "I can’t speak to my opponents opinions. I could tell you about mine. I’ve been talking about this from the very beginning, those of you. Anyone I saw me sneak back on the ground out for a long time at go around listening to Ohio, and I heard about data centers by her about the cost of energy bills. Electric bills, my electrical last summer went up a hundred and forty bucks. My last electric bill was two hundred 90 dollars and my husband, our home, and our kids home anymore, occurred. Kids aren’t there, and so you notice it, and I also talk to our manufacturers, who are also haven’t really hard time here. So we came up early on you know and, and we kind of laid out with. Sort of laid out everything we’ve been saying all along, but we put forward a conditional moratorium and here’s the thoughts on it. We gotta get these costs down, so we started with bringing your own energy, which the best companies are already figured out. They need to do, and our do, and, and one of the by the you take ways is what I just said about. You know what we can do with nuclear fusion. That’s actually been looked at and height in Ohio right now. The next thing I said is that I’m a big believer in huh. Rule, I don’t know what happened Homer on this day house, but I think it’s because the rule is coming from have stayed is not coming from answer and to us, but we been sneak, sneaking things in and communities and it’s working out very well. I think everyone deserves to know as common in their community and have some say in it. Communities can decide whether or not they think this benefits and they can fight to make sure that the jobs or union jobs that pay stays in Ohio, that the benefits the whole pipeline stays in Ohio. We can watch out of a big advocate for our water and our air. I’m, just a big outfit for community benefit, and I I think there’s so much more to this. We can do. I think we need brownfields and we’ve got so many as we know, places that are sit on electric grids up and down the river that could be quickly repurpose, so we don’t need to use of farmland per se"