Gov. Mike DeWine’s data center advice for Ohio cities and towns: Go make a deal

1. Clip 1 · 0:14 Cleveland City Council Officials and Speakers Elected Official Questioning auto captions, unchecked

   Zoning Power & Grid Water

   Officials and speakers in Cleveland, OH address municipal data center zoning, grid capacity, and community impacts.

   "that is not is worried about data centers. Cut a good deal. You The deal's in your hands. You have the ability to do it. If you look at some of things that frankly have grown up around Columbus, um the that local community, the local business people, everybody, they cut a deal with that data center. Um and so be aggressive. Go out there. Uh don't just take what they"

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2. Clip 2 · 0:47 Resident public comment Resident Public Comment auto captions, unchecked

   Community members and local officials in Cleveland, OH weigh water supply, electricity rates, and neighborhood buffer rules.

   "is a tax incentive. And we're just going to let it let it pause for a for a while and um you know, give people the chance to kind of digest where where they are. But you're going to still see data centers come into Ohio without without that without that actual incentive. But if we need to add the incentive later, we can we can push that back in. It seemed the time to kind of take a deep breath. But I I think that you know, if you look at data centers, look, they're"

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3. Clip 3 · 1:27 Cleveland City Council Member Elected Official Questioning auto captions, unchecked

   Zoning Power & Grid Water

   Cleveland City Council members deliberate on municipal siting standards, utility capacity, and the recorded ordinance action.

   "water. You can build them two ways. You can build them the way they get to use massive amount of water or you can basically go through what I would call recycling uh and and put them through the system. Costs more to do it. We have a right to insist they do that. We should insist that they do that. We should insist that the deal that they cut in regard to electricity does not end up costing consumers money. They got to pay their own way. They're making money. They can pay their own way. They should. But"

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