Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tRepublican gubernatorial candidate and Pennsylvania Treasurer Stacy Garrity called for a pause on data center development during a listening session with local, county and state leaders in Butler County on Tuesday, citing concerns about local input and protections for ratepayers.”A pause is however long it takes,” Garrity said. “To me, you get everybody, you get all the stakeholders around the table, and you say, OK, what do we need to do to protect our ratepayers, protect our communities? And so, a pause is as long as we need.”Garrity also criticized legislation recently passed in the Pennsylvania House, known as GRID standards, which is now under review in the Senate Finance Committee.The GRID standards, or Governor\u2019s Responsible Infrastructure Development Standards, would require developers to submit applications outlining how their projects would protect energy affordability and the environment, and support economic development. Developers who meet the criteria and receive GRID certification would qualify for tax benefits on the sale of data center equipment.\u201cDespite claiming to fight for community input and transparency, his new standards, I think it’s called GRID, they do nothing to address concerns raised by data center development or the sweetheart tax deals they’ve already received,\u201d Garrity said.In response, Manuel Bonder, a spokesperson for Shapiro for Pennsylvania, said, \u201cStacy Garrity is a desperate politician \u2013 and her long record of supporting completely unregulated data center development makes it clear that she just can’t be trusted. Governor Shapiro has worked directly with community, labor, and environmental leaders to develop and propose some of the strongest data center regulations and standards of accountability in the entire country.\u201dState Rep. Aaron Bernstine, who represents Butler County, joined Garrity in expressing concerns about what they described as a lack of local control in the development process.\u201cStacy, we have an issue in Harrisburg where the Democrats and Josh Shapiro think that everything is a ‘one size fits all,’ and think that big government is the answer, and that’s what we have to get away from,\u201d Bernstine said.Garrity agreed, saying, \u201cWe absolutely have to get government out of the way, and the control should absolutely remain local.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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Republican gubernatorial candidate and Pennsylvania Treasurer Stacy Garrity called for a pause on data center development during a listening session with local, county and state leaders in Butler County on Tuesday, citing concerns about local input and protections for ratepayers.<\/p>\n
“A pause is however long it takes,” Garrity said. “To me, you get everybody, you get all the stakeholders around the table, and you say, OK, what do we need to do to protect our ratepayers, protect our communities? And so, a pause is as long as we need.”<\/p>\n
Garrity also criticized legislation recently passed in the Pennsylvania House, known as GRID standards, which is now under review in the Senate Finance Committee.<\/p>\n
The GRID standards, or Governor\u2019s Responsible Infrastructure Development Standards, would require developers to submit applications outlining how their projects would protect energy affordability and the environment, and support economic development. Developers who meet the criteria and receive GRID certification would qualify for tax benefits on the sale of data center equipment.<\/p>\n
\u201cDespite claiming to fight for community input and transparency, his new standards, I think it’s called GRID, they do nothing to address concerns raised by data center development or the sweetheart tax deals they’ve already received,\u201d Garrity said.<\/p>\n
In response, Manuel Bonder, a spokesperson for Shapiro for Pennsylvania, said, \u201cStacy Garrity is a desperate politician \u2013 and her long record of supporting completely unregulated data center development makes it clear that she just can’t be trusted. Governor Shapiro has worked directly with community, labor, and environmental leaders to develop and propose some of the strongest data center regulations and standards of accountability in the entire country.\u201d<\/p>\n
State Rep. Aaron Bernstine, who represents Butler County, joined Garrity in expressing concerns about what they described as a lack of local control in the development process.<\/p>\n
\u201cStacy, we have an issue in Harrisburg where the Democrats and Josh Shapiro think that everything is a ‘one size fits all,’ and think that big government is the answer, and that’s what we have to get away from,\u201d Bernstine said.<\/p>\n
Garrity agreed, saying, \u201cWe absolutely have to get government out of the way, and the control should absolutely remain local.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOOM. STACY GARRITY CALLING FOR A PAUSE ON ALL DATA CENTER DEVELOPMENT, SAYING THE LOCAL LEADERS ARE NOT…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[102536,524,21080,235,2116,67182,20483,48231,4531,102533,102532,33,102535,91646,28,408,30,9116,29,102534,10631,3415,8060],"class_list":["post-238168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-big-government","tag-community","tag-concern","tag-county","tag-data-centers","tag-datum-center","tag-developer","tag-garrity","tag-governor","tag-grid-certification","tag-grid-standard","tag-josh-shapiro","tag-local-control","tag-pause","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-governor","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-house","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-ratepayer","tag-republican","tag-shapiro","tag-stacy-garrity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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