Chris

this is where my thoughts come to die

[Chris @chrisrob22]

@petunia0430 @TheCharlesDowns @amyactonoh

[Chris @chrisrob22]

Duke vivek just spins the same populist tropes that he has no actual plan to deliver but the mush brain republicans seem to eat it up. You’d think after a decade of populist lies from another billionaire they’d have figured it out by now.

[Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy]

MY DATA CENTER POLICY PLEDGE: OHIOANS-FIRST

A top concern I hear from Ohioans across our state – second only to property taxes – is the accelerating pace of data center expansion. Key citizen concerns about data centers include rising electric bills, noise, pollution, and the absence of clearly defined economic benefits for Ohio families. The data center industry has badly failed to earn the trust of millions of everyday Ohioans who are struggling with electric bills and property taxes, wondering why large corporations receive property tax abatements while ordinary homeowners don’t receive the same.

There are hundreds of data centers already across our state, and the pace of construction is accelerating. While I had no part in these past projects, I am committed to ensuring our policies catch up to current realities. Despite my opponents’ claims, I’m not “pro-data center.” I’m pro-Ohio, and I have a plan to fix the problem.

At the same time, I also hear from Ohio's workers about the need to attract high-paying construction jobs to our state, for which the data center boom has been helpful. Preserving economic growth, capital investment, and high-paying jobs in Ohio is also a vital objective.

After traveling all 88 counties and listening to workers, farmers, union leaders, building trades, small business owners, environmental groups, and grassroots activists, I am convinced that the best path forward is neither unrestrained data center growth nor a permanent categorical ban. The right answer is a policy framework that allows Ohio families to prosper economically while protecting local communities.

Today I am announcing my policy pledge to Ohioans on data centers. If a data center is built in your community, then (i) you will no longer have to pay for your home’s electricity, (ii) you will pay lower property taxes, and (iii) the data center will be required to abide by all air and water quality standards without exception, and we will take the necessary steps to protect Ohio’s fertile farmland. If any one of these three conditions is not met, the data center won’t be built. Period. I will work with Ohio’s state legislature to codify these commitments into law immediately after I assume office.

To ensure urgency, I will further issue an executive order on my first day in office to immediately halt the approval of any new data center project announcements in Ohio, until the above-mentioned data center legislation takes effect. These policy objectives are consistent with the principles I have articulated over the first 18 months of my campaign, and today I am making a legislative commitment to codify them into state law.

My Democrat opponent recently announced that data centers must not contribute to higher electric bills for ratepayers, a concept that I advocated for in early 2025 long before she started parroting the same. This is obvious but insufficient. We can and must go further for Ohio families.

Eliminating electricity costs is the right objective. If Ohio’s governor sets this as a clear requirement and negotiates accordingly, I am confident that hyper scalers would be willing to fully cover the cost of power for Ohioans who reside near a data center. That requires the acumen of a businessman, not a bureaucrat, at the top.

This is very practical to implement. Data centers could generate power behind their own meter, and the excess power generated can be credited to the electric charges on a residential customer’s electric bill within a certain radius (the “benefit zone”). This would operate as if customers in the benefit zone had executed a power purchase agreement with the power plant, but at no cost.

For example, if a data center is constructed along with a 1,000 megawatt (MW) natural gas or nuclear power plant, and the data center uses 700MW of that electricity, the remaining 300MW would flow to the power grid. State law would define the benefit zone and credit the 300MW across all residential customers within that zone. Even 100MW would power 75,000-100,000 homes. Given the potential to power so many homes, most of Ohio’s counties would fit entirely within a benefit zone – which means every resident in the county would pay nothing for their electricity if a data center were built there. Alternatively, data centers could also directly reimburse residential customers within the benefit zone for their electric bills.

In addition to providing free electricity for local residents, my plan would also deliver property tax relief to Ohioans within the benefit zone – by prohibiting property tax abatements for future data centers and creating a property tax rebate for Ohio homeowners. That is, data centers would be required to pay 100% of their property taxes without abatements, and these property tax revenues would directly fund property tax rebates for homeowners. This helps deliver major property tax relief for Ohio families without hurting local police, schools, or firemen – and may become essential with a looming ballot initiative to eliminate property taxes expected in 2027.

Finally, my plan ensures that data centers do not receive special exemptions on air and water quality standards and that our farmland is protected. This respects local conservation objectives, while also giving companies a predictable regulatory environment. Simply put: if a data center is going to be built in Ohio, we will require it to minimize its water usage by recycling and reusing its water with the best available technology. We will also require that when the water is released, it comes out just as clean as when the data center took it in. That’s common sense. We will also emphasize the use of vacant and former industrial sites known as brownfields, rather than the use of fertile farmland. Our water and farmland are some of Ohio’s greatest and most precious resources, and my plan ensures that they are protected for all Ohioans.

Ohio requires a governor who is willing to listen and to adopt thoughtful solutions that actually put Ohioans first, by carefully weighing costs and benefits rather than spouting off meaningless proclamations.

That means supporting economic growth for Ohio’s workers, while ensuring that we do it in a way that helps all Ohioans. In sum, my administration will eliminate electricity costs and reduce property taxes for homeowners, while also ensuring that all environmental laws are respected and that farmland is preserved. No data center will be built in Ohio without actualizing these commitments. I look forward to signing legislation in early 2027 to turn this vision into reality.

[Chris @chrisrob22]

@theHobbles Midwest summer seems to be going full force. What a nice day to be in Michigan

[Greater Cleveland Partnership @GreaterCLE]

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[Chris @chrisrob22]

https://t.co/U3xjEICF2i

Just keep him & his staff away from the kids, would ya @AngieNadineKing ?

[Angie King @AngieNadineKing]

It was wonderful to have @SenJonHusted in Wapakoneta this morning. He’s doing good work on behalf of the people of Ohio.

Sherrod Brown had over 30 years to deliver for Ohioans and chose to fight for illegal immigrants instead.

From securing the border, tax cuts, rural healthcare transformation program, increasing domestic energy production - keep the America First momentum going and elect Jon Husted in November!🇺🇸

[Chris @chrisrob22]

Simba’s 8th birthday party got a little out of hand

[Chris @chrisrob22]

And you know Jimmy complains about the poors getting government handouts....
https://t.co/kUjsWg6EJ6

[Chris @chrisrob22]

They’ve come to snuff the rooster

[Max @Juicewag]

This is absolutely absurd, and having the Highway Patrol arrest him in this manner is blatant political targeting. I look forward to more information coming out about this ridiculous Republican operation to discredit a journalist.

[Chris @chrisrob22]

Duke Vivek loves Ohio so much he's moving jobs from here to Texas!

[Students for Amy Acton @students4amy]

WATCH: Vivek Ramaswamy is asked what his favorite place in the Mahoning Valley is, clearly has no answer and word-salad’s his way into saying Cuyahoga National Park is his favorite place in Youngstown lol

[Chris @chrisrob22]

If trends continue, Mississippians will be able to joke about being called the Ohio of the south.

[Chris @chrisrob22]

The secret in freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

- Maximilien Robespierre

[Kevin @KevinMcCune]

@BrianStewartOH @VivekGRamaswamy @Rob_McColley Ohio is 45th in funding education, but 26th in performance. Ohio’s teachers outperform investment by 42%, yet are scapegoated & vilified by Vivek’s push for year round school & pay for performance (*which destroyed edu in TX), while data centers get HUGE subsidies from @ohiogop:

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

THE TRUMP EFFECT:

Gas when Joe Biden left office: $3.13/gallon
Gas today: $3.94/gallon

Electricity when Biden left office: 17.5c per kWh
Electricity today: 19.9c per kWh

Oil when Biden left office: $70/barrel
Oil today: $112/barrel

Heating Oil when Biden left office: $2.50
Heating Oil today: $4.60

Coal when Biden left office: $116.35/T
Coal today: $146.50/T

Beef when Biden left office: $5.50/lb
Beef today: $7.50/lb

Bread when Biden left office: $2.00
Bread today: $2.10

[Chris @chrisrob22]

A stat worth noting “Twenty-five of Ohio’s 88 counties had unemployment at or above 5% in 2024, and 21 of those are in Appalachian Ohio.”

[Chris @chrisrob22]

Can boil it down to one for ya: one party control for 30 years now… @ohiogop have ruined this state. They've been systematically reducing and limiting education for decades so people have no idea that they're being duped: https://t.co/xqd36Y1woB

[Chris @chrisrob22]

@RuiterWrongFAN

[Bob Hagan @Repbobhagan]

Wait. You Repubs cut funding for public schools by close to 30% in the last 20 years. You have tried to shut them down.

[Chris @chrisrob22]

Totally normal process of a functional fascist government. @ohiogop are traitors to the people.

[Rep. Shontel Brown @RepShontelBrown]

Shame on Ohio for handing over personal voter data to DOJ.

While other states DEFEND their voters and elections from Trump’s attacks, Ohio happily gives in.

https://t.co/JUd0OJssAz

[Chris @chrisrob22]

She’s been promoted to run The Kristi Noem Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good and Who Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too

[Drew Harwell @drewharwell]

Kristi Noem is out at DHS. Here's a TV commercial of her on a horse, filmed five months ago at Mount Rushmore, for an ad campaign that cost more than $200 million

[Chris @chrisrob22]

We should probably stop letting people who should be in prison make decisions for millions of other people.
At some point.

[Chris @chrisrob22]

@ClevelandScene build a cattle farm