Pete McGuire

But let's get ahead of this because we've seen what's happened in the rest of the country and we've seen how upset people are getting about this and how data centers can influence increasing electric bills and the environmental concerns you mentioned about them.

So let's get ahead of this.

Make sure they're done properly when they come here.

Yeah, in two cases.

In one case, this development came forward as kind of a fully-fledged package with a tax break.

This was in the city of Lewiston.

And it kind of got plunked on the desk of the city council.

And people were really, really upset.

And there was almost immediate backlash.

And the city council immediately voted unanimously to cancel that project.

Another one in a smaller coastal town.

People didn't know about it until...

They found out through some filings that the town council was doing about this.

So people feel like these are being developed in secret.

They don't know about them until it's too late.

And that has really increased opposition to data centers in the state.

There is.

Most Republicans in the state legislature voted against this with the idea, the argument being Maine has enough regulations.

There are ways that we could regulate these facilities without having a moratorium.

We don't need this council to make new rules specific to these.