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Ron DeSantis: “There was one [proposal] where they wanted to charge 20% of…”

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Governor DeSantis Signs Law to Protect Floridians from Subsidizing Data Centers

Published | Video Starts at 10:52

There's been a bunch of things that have been circulated in Florida. There are no hyperscale data centers constructed in Florida. But there are different. And There was one [proposal] where they wanted to charge 20% of the cost of the electricity to the ratepayers. And I'm just thinking to myself, how is that a benefit for you? That is not good. So we killed that. We worked on a bunch of other stuff. (10:52–11:01)

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Asserts a proposal to charge ratepayers 20% of electricity costs for a data center.

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