Republican LaRose claims victory over Blackwell in Ohio Auditor race
LaRose leads by about 72,000 votes with 102,148 provisional ballots still uncounted, and called the win bittersweet after other Republican losses.
Data Centers
Jon Husted lives in Meta lobbyist’s D.C. house, won’t say how much he pays in rent
The disclosure lands days before Husted faces Sherrod Brown, who has made Husted's support for data-center tax breaks a central campaign issue.
Merrin took $10,500 tied to data center financiers, including Blackstone CEO behind $10 billion Ohio project
New federal campaign records show $7,000 from Blackstone chief Stephen Schwarzman and his wife, plus $3,500 attributed to an AI infrastructure investor, as the Republican candidate disputes criticism of his data center record.
Husted championed Ohio’s data center boom — and defended the billions in tax breaks that fueled it
Newly surfaced recordings capture Jon Husted praising data centers as a pipeline of jobs and economic growth. His years of support for the industry and its tax incentives preceded a $1.6 billion annual tax-break bill for Ohio and mounting concerns about electricity prices.
Jon Husted backed utilities’ land-seizure powers now threatening Ohio farms for data centers
A 2022 Ohio Supreme Court case shows AEP already invoked the 2007 law to claim presumptions favoring condemnation, with a hearing on new Piketon-area lines set for October 27.
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A construction ban on data centers would be better for Ohio than the status quo, study says
Scioto Analysis ran 10,000 simulations and found requiring data centers to use 90% renewable power scored best, after Ohio taxpayers covered $2.3 billion in subsidies.
Poll: Dems open lead in two Ohio races
A GOP memo warns data center backlash is dragging down Husted, while 41% of Ohio voters say their midterm ballot is a statement against Trump.
Congressional Republicans want permitting reform. An Ohio project shows how tricky that could be.
Darke, Shelby, Miami and Champaign county officials all back the $1.1 billion power line, as long as it crosses someone else's land instead.
Husted’s data center bill would help industry, not consumers, critics say
Sen. Jon Husted’s Ratepayer Protection Act would require states to consider protections for consumers.
House candidate Derek Merrin reports capital gains of at least $1,200 on Nvidia stock
Chipmaker Nvidia is funding the development of a large-scale data center in Pike County.
Ohio economists: Abatements may attract data centers, but is that a good thing?
One economist calls the incentives a race to the bottom with few local jobs, while another says Ohio's $2.3 billion likely bought data centers it would have gotten free.
Husted helped fuel Ohio’s data center boom. His consumer bill is built on Big Tech’s voluntary pledge.
Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta fought Ohio's binding cost-sharing tariff, then signed the voluntary pledge Husted's federal bill only requires states to consider adopting.
Max Miller voted to block states from regulating data center development
The Ohio Republican representative voted for billions of dollars in tax cuts for companies building large AI data centers.
David Ziegler rejects data centers in Seneca County as Frankart sidesteps whether he supports them
Independent commissioner candidate David Ziegler said data centers do not belong in Seneca County, while Republican incumbent Bill Frankart stopped short of saying whether he supports or opposes bringing the massive facilities into the county.
Fact check: Ramaswamy claimed to ‘lead’ on gas tax relief. Acton beat him to it by nearly 7 hours.
The Republican nominee declared “Vivek Leads” after calling for a gas tax suspension hours after Amy Acton called for one.
Lobbyists call on Rob McColley while he campaigns as Vivek Ramaswamy’s running mate
The Senate president – the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor – held meetings and calls with dozens of lobbyists this year, his official calendar shows.
What’s going on with your power bill and what Ohio’s candidates for governor will do about it
A former PUCO commissioner calls Ramaswamy's free-power pledge doomed to fail, while a consumer advocate says $10 billion in transmission costs go unreviewed.
Trump likes data centers. Congress seems stuck. The midterms could deliver a verdict.
A poll shows just 11% of Americans back local data centers, as Trump attacks critics and Senate Democrats block Husted's ratepayer bill.
Developer behind proposed Portage County data center gave Heidi Workman $6,589 eight days before panel appointment
Conrad Geis made Workman’s second-largest campaign contribution after his company sought to lift a Shalersville moratorium so it could market land for data centers.
Mike Dovilla backed Ohio data center tax breaks, collected thousands from industry lobbyists
Records show Dovilla backed three separate measures expanding the tax break before lobbyists for QTS Data Centers gave his campaign nearly $3,000.
