Gubernatorial candidate Nancy Mace ready to take on data centers

About this episode

Congresswoman Nancy Mace discusses her plans for data centers if elected Governor of South Carolina.

SC Congresswoman Nancy Mace spoke with Small Business “Backbone” Podcast host Frank Knapp about what she intends to do about data centers if she is elected Governor. She says that she has heard from a lot of people across South Carolina that they are against data centers and that they don’t think that their voices are being heard. Congresswoman Mace severely criticized one of the Senate bills, offered this past legislative session to supposed to regulate data centers, saying that it did not protect ratepayers. She said that the failure of the legislature to pass meaningful data center regulations was a result of “doing what we’ve always done, which is nothing.” If elected, Congresswoman Mace said that she will be very involved in the data center issue and that she would personally wright the bill.

People in this episode

Host: Frank Knapp

Guest: Nancy Mace

Topics covered

• data centers
• politics
• governorship
• regulation
• South Carolina
• public opinion

Keywords

• data centers
• Nancy Mace
• South Carolina
• regulation
• governor
• politics
• public opinion

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Organizations: South Carolina, Senate, legislature

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