Note
Received PAC contributions from Applied Digital Corporation who lobbied in Pierre through Nick Phillips (VP of external affairs) & OttertailCorp PAC for 50 year tax breaks for data centers and against all resident protections. Also received contributions from SD Action Committee for Rural Electrification (ACRE PAC), MidAmerican Energy Company, & South Dakota Public Power PAC, Several energy companies lobbied in Pierre for tax breaks for data centers this past legislative session.
Voting record
On 2026-session data center bills · House record
allow the Public Utilities Commission to assess actual costs to data centers that are customers of public utilities.
prohibit nondisclosure of certain agreements related to data centers.
protect residents from increased utility costs and utility shortages caused by data centers and clarify authority to regulate data centers.
provide a sales and use tax exemption for goods and services related to data center operations.
Campaign money
Money is a signal, never a position. A flag below means a donor matched a category. It is not a finding that anything improper happened.
Keri Weems For Legislature
Flagged contributions to their own committee
- AData center and Big Tech industry$2,000
- BUtility, power and energy interests$850
- CThe PAC funnel$250
- DIndividuals named in the investigation$1,000
Money spent by others
This is not Keri K. Weems’s money and was not received by their campaign. A candidate does not control independent expenditure made on their behalf, and may not want it.
- FIndependent expenditure spent for them$29,073
Flagged donors, largest first
- Steve DelBianco $1,000
- Applied Digital Corporation $1,000
- Matt Paulson $1,000
- SD Ethanol Producers PAC $500
- Dusty PAC $250
- Steve Willard $200
These named donors add up to $3,950, against the $4,100 flagged above. The itemisation on file is partial, so the list is not the whole of it. That gap is a limit of what has been collected, not a finding.
Every itemised contribution on file (7)›
| Joseph Rich | $1,000 |
| House GOP PACC | $500 |
| (UNITEMIZED - gifts of $100 or less) | $336 |
| SD INSURANCE ALLIANCE PACC | $300 |
| Dan KirbyD | $200 |
| information below. Minnehaha County Republicans | $110 |
| NAME NOT RECOVERED - out-of-state PACC | $100 |
Collected via manual pull (verified). Contributor names appear exactly as the committee filed them. Donor addresses are not published.
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