My position on data centers

As governor, I will let communities decide for themselves whether they want a data center at all — and if they say no, that decision would be honored.

If a community says yes, the developer must:

• Commit to full transparency by banning NDAs

• Provide 100% renewable energy, which will combat the amount of coal we burn

• Cover 100% of the costs of infrastructure and grid upgrades

• Require contributions to the state's Focus on Energy fund, which could be used to bring down utility

• rates for Wisconsinites statewide

• Build the data centers with union labor, project labor agreements, and community benefit agreements

• Create good-paying, family-supporting jobs

• Protect local water and our environment as a whole

The contrast with Tom Tiffany is stark: he has never introduced legislation regulating data centers in Congress, has never backed a moratorium, and is pushing to keep aging coal plants online to help power the very data centers he claims to be tough on.

Instead, he has voted for trillions of dollars in permanent corporate tax breaks through the One Big Beautiful Bill and a 10-year ban on state and local governments enforcing any AI regulation.