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Ron DeSantis: “We pass legislation, you know, at my, you know, prodding…”

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So if you have 500,000 or even more added to the existing grid, that's a double or tripling of supply, maybe for a local community or demand. Unless you double or triple the supply, guess what's going to happen? … We pass legislation, you know, at my, you know, prodding... I signed the legislation saying you can't do any costs onto ratepayers associated with a hyperscale data center. … get pushed around. You Know, there's companies that have had kind of data centers. This hyperscale is really a newer thing over the last couple years where they're building just these massive, massive footprints. (44:43–45:12)

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Asserts that Florida passed legislation preventing costs from hyperscale data centers being passed to ratepayers.

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