Property Taxes-Data Centers and Chronically Absent Kids in Public Schools

Data centers have been pulled into the political spin of an Election Year Black Hole.

This week at a special forum on the "The Future of Nuclear Energy in Ohio" Senator Jerry Cirino made it clear that if data centers were politcally mothballed by a constitutional amendment in Ohio it would signal the end of the state's tech economy for the 21st Century. "We should not be stopping data centers from coming to Ohio," said Senator Cirino. "That would be a sad day in Ohio's economic development history."

In fact, former Congressman Bill Johnson who is now the President of Youngstown State University and Senator Terry Johnson both talked about the strategic national security importance of having data centers here at home. The Daily Wire also recently reported that some of the same far left dark money funding the anti-data center narrative comes from some of the same Anti-American billionaires that funded the failed $40 million dark money takeover of Ohio's Constitution by trying to gerrymander guaranteed wins for democrats in 2023. They are some of the same leftists who are targeting Ohio's oil and natural gas industry.

Senator Andrew Brenner joins The President's Podcast this week. He isn't shy about telling it like it is when it comes to the data center debate, as well as his message on the General Assembly's $3 billion in property tax reforms that homeowners will start seeing in the second half of this year. Also, as Senate Education Chairman he has some strong words for schools that for some reason still don't know where half their students are.