TOR Editor Jeff Skinner sits down with Melissa Rexroth and Nicole Bethel, two circulators for the Conserve Ohio data center amendment seeking to ban hyperscale data centers across the state.
More information can be found about the amendment, including signing dates and locations at conserveohio.com
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