So he was a no. So The Democrats and two of my Republican colleagues killed my bill that would have put in basic protections for ratepayers. You should not pay more in your electric rates for infrastructure or generation due to a data center coming online. Your groundwater should be protected by requiring closed loop systems on data centers. No sucking tens of millions of gallons of water from the aquifer every single year to cool these systems requiring reclamation bonds. (23:52–23:59)
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Asserts that electric rates should not increase due to new data centers.
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