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Oct 15, 2026
Chris QuinnHOST
[upbeat music] Our reporter, Anna Staver, has just done tremendous work this year on data centers, constantly revealing things we didn't know, and this week she has revealed something that is truly, truly outrageous.
Chris QuinnHOST
It's the first story we're talking about on Today in Ohio.
Chris QuinnHOST
It's the news discussion podcast from cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer.
Chris QuinnHOST
I'm Chris Quinn, here with Lisa Garvin, Leila Atassi, and Laura Johnston.
Chris QuinnHOST
Leila, in what has to be one of the most outrageous stories to come from Ohio's incredibly anti-citizen embrace of data centers, Anna Staver, like I said, tells the story about how a data center has the right to pretty much condemn private property for use in transmitting power.
Chris QuinnHOST
Let's talk about this travesty.
Leila AtassiHOST
Yeah, Chris, I, I think we're, we're seeing here how far Ohio is willing to go to accommodate the data center industry, even at the expense of its own residents.
Laura JohnstonPANELIST
Um, clearly he thinks he's helping Husted and Vivek Ramaswamy, like we've talked about, showing up here, but those are big question marks.
Laura JohnstonPANELIST
When I talked to Anna Staver, who was at the rally on Monday, she said that she was surprised th- that it wasn't more full, right? That this is not a full, um, the Covelli Centre actually had a lot of room left.
Laura JohnstonPANELIST
So, I mean, do with that what you will.
Laura JohnstonPANELIST
The thing is, this repair center was called for in an August 13th presidential memorandum on rebuilding the Navy and the shipbuilding industrial base.
Chris QuinnGUEST
The demand for power by these centers has created a huge upcharge.
Chris QuinnGUEST
And now, uh, Anna Staver, one of our reporters, did a great story a couple of weeks ago.
Chris QuinnGUEST
Because all these new transmission lines are needed, it turns out there's no oversight when those are built, and the utilities get a huge percentage of the cost of them as part of their fee.
Chris QuinnGUEST
So the utilities just keep profiting [laughs] from the data centers, and people are just angry about it.
Leila AtassiHOST
He's an Akron veteran and a community organizer who's running for the Senate as an openly socialist third-party candidate.
Leila AtassiHOST
He's raised about $80,000 for his campaign, but suddenly somebody else has spent more than $181,000 sending out glossy mailers promoting him with slogans like, "Join the revolution," and, "Send a worker to the Senate." And reporter Anna Staver traced that spending to this mysterious political committee called Enough Promises Ohio, which was formed just last week.
Leila AtassiHOST
The committee doesn't reveal much about who's behind it, but its printing vendor shares an address with a Republican political operation in South Carolina.
Leila AtassiHOST
So if you follow the connections further, you get to firms with ties to Trump's main super PAC and Bernie Moreno's 2024 Senate campaign.
Chris QuinnHOST
We've been asking this week why Donald Trump and J.D. Vance keep coming to Ohio to stump for candidates given how much people revile them.
Chris QuinnHOST
Reporter Anna Staver took a different direction, asking why a candidate like John Husted keeps welcoming this support given how it might damage him.
Chris QuinnHOST
What's her story say, Leila?
Leila AtassiPANELIST
Well, this story really gets at that political gamble that Husted is making.
Laura JohnstonPANELIST
I agree.
Laura JohnstonPANELIST
It's just like any time you talk about nuclear power, there are questions, right? And we th- Anna Staver did that great project about Pike County and things being forced on the people who live there, and you just hope that everybody, that this is done in a safe manner and everybody puts all the proper safeguards in place and everyone's on board.
Chris QuinnHOST
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Chris QuinnHOST
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Chris QuinnHOST
He's coming back.
Chris QuinnHOST
Doesn't he realize how much people here dislike him? Where's he coming next, Leila, and when?
Leila AtassiPANELIST
The next stop is Youngstown on October 12th at the Covelli Centre, and reporter Anna Staver points out that there's a very deliberate political reason Republicans are sending him there.
Leila AtassiPANELIST
The Mahoning Valley used to be reliably Democratic territory.