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Nick Fosness

State House · District 01

Nick Fosness

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Pro-resident voting record on data center bills

Sided with residents on 50% of votes across 11 data center bills.

Note

Received PAC contributions from SD Action Committee for Rural Electrification (ACRE 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

HB 1038Voted For

allow the Public Utilities Commission to assess actual costs to data centers that are customers of public utilities.

HB 1246Voted Against

prohibit nondisclosure of certain agreements related to data centers.

SB 135Voted For

protect residents from increased utility costs and utility shortages caused by data centers and clarify authority to regulate data centers.

HB 1005Co-Sponsor

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.

$14,700in reported receipts

Fosness for South Dakota + Nick Fosness for South Dakota

Flagged contributions to their own committee

  • AData center and Big Tech industry$1,000
  • BUtility, power and energy interests$150
  • CThe PAC funnel$5,250
Flagged total$6,400

Flagged donors, largest first

  • Triple R PAC $5,000
  • Applied Digital $1,000
  • Dusty PAC $250
  • Otter Tail Political Action Committee $150
Every itemised contribution on file (20)
Steve Del Bionco$1,000
Josh Kraft$1,000
Scott and Darcy Duke$1,000
Aletta Kraft$1,000
CA Farms LLC$1,000
Mike Atkinson$1,000
Eric Sigdestad$1,000
Ashley Sigdestad$1,000
Marge Kraft$1,000
Stevens For House attymike07@gmail.com Yankton, SD 57078$500
Dan and Trudye Fosness$500
Bob and Karen Metz$500
Stu Eberhart$250
Well PACC$250
MDU Resources GoodE$250
Amber Arlint for SD House$250
Timothy Tracy$100
Kim Malsom-Rysdon$100
Larry Frost$100
Mitch Richter$100

Collected via manual pull (verified). Contributor names appear exactly as the committee filed them. Donor addresses are not published.

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