Capitol Chats: Guv hopeful Brennan backs temporarily pausing data center projects to ensure guardrails

About this episode

Joel Brennan discusses his gubernatorial campaign and his stance on pausing data center projects for regulatory discussions.

In this week's Capitol Chats podcast, former Department of Administration Secretary Joel Brennan discusses his Dem guv campaign and says if elected, he supports temporarily pausing data center projects until state leaders can agree on regulatory guardrails.

People in this episode

Guest: Joel Brennan

Topics covered

• data center projects
• regulatory guardrails
• Democratic gubernatorial campaign

Keywords

• gubernatorial campaign
• Wisconsin politics
• data regulation

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