Sherrod Brown
His campaign says data centers should pay the full cost of their utilities so household bills do not go up, and that he would cap how much utility companies can raise rates.
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Electricity bills and data centers
Campaign positions remain attributed. Official actions are shown separately, with narrow relationship labels and limits.
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Jon Husted
His office says his Ratepayer Protection Act would make large electricity users such as data centers, not families or small businesses, pay for the generation and transmission built to serve them.
Greg Levy
His platform says Ohioans should not have to worry about electricity bills driven up by data centers they did not ask for, and that the race for AI threatens to strain the state's grid.
William B. Redpath
No position on electricity prices or data centers was found on his campaign's About, What I Stand For or Media pages.
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Jon Husted: Matches stated record claim
His office says he introduced the Ratepayer Protection Act on July 16, 2026, that the act passed the House on September 16, 2026, by 417 to 3, and that on September 17 he brought it to the Senate floor seeking passage by unanimous consent, which was blocked. He introduced S. 5028, the Ratepayer Protection Act, on July 16, 2026; it was referred to the Energy and Natural Resources Committee. It would add a standard to the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act under which rates for data-center customers with a peak demand of 100 megawatts or more recover the full, incremental cost of the generation, transmission and distribution upgrades needed to serve them, a standard state regulators must consider and decide whether to adopt. The bill the House passed on September 16 was the House companion, H.R. 9340, sponsored by Representative Gabe Evans, on a motion to suspend the rules and pass it as amended, 417 to 3 (Roll Call 312). Its 100-megawatt threshold and its full-cost standard appear word for word in the House bill as passed, though the two texts are not identical. On September 17, 2026 he asked unanimous consent that the Senate take up H.R. 9340 and pass it; an objection was heard (Congressional Record, pages S4775 to S4776). Neither bill has passed the Senate. Limit: The House passed its own bill of the same name, not his. His office's July release says Representatives Evans and Castor introduced the House companion, so his office has not hidden the difference, but "the Ratepayer Protection Act passed the House" describes a different bill number with overlapping, not identical, text. When he sought Senate passage, the bill he asked the Senate to pass was the House one, so his office's use of the name follows how he treats the House bill himself.
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