CHICAGO, IL — Governor JB Pritzker took swift action to prevent data centers from driving up costs for working families while Darren Bailey supports building them in Illinois, saying “we’ve got to have them.”
When hyperscale data centers began to demand increasingly large amounts of energy and water, Gov. Pritzker stopped tax incentives for new data centers to prevent resource shortages and higher costs. He called on the Illinois legislature to pass the POWER Act, which would require data centers to pay for the costs of their energy and water.
Meanwhile, Darren Bailey opposed Gov. Pritzker stopping data center tax incentives, expressed that he has “no problem” with them, and even said, “I’m for data centers. We’ve got to have data centers.”
“While Darren Bailey shows his support for data centers, Governor JB Pritzker is taking action to protect Illinois from rising energy costs,” said JB for Governor campaign spokesperson Leah Hurwitz. “As Donald Trump and his MAGA sycophants let data center construction run rampant, Governor Pritzker won’t let working families get slapped with the cost of data centers.”
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