Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has proposed a new, somewhat radical condition for Ohio’s expanding data center sector.
As Scioto Post reported, Ramsaswamy’s proposal dictates that future projects would not move ahead unless homeowners nearby saw their household electricity costs fall to zero. If adopted, the idea would require one of the state’s fastest-growing industries to deliver an immediate local payoff.
What’s happening?
Ramaswamy is promoting the idea as an “Ohioans-First” policy for upcoming data center projects in the state, the outlet said. His chief opponent, Amy Acton, also opposes unabated data centers and supports a conditional moratorium and had already posted a similar policy against data centers on her campaign website. Under Ramaswamy’s new proposal, which mostly matches hers in spirit, no future data center could be approved unless it satisfies three conditions.
Those conditions combine resident benefits and project standards, as Scioto Post noted…