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Randy Deibert

State Senate · District 31

Randy Deibert

25%Senate

Pro-resident voting record on data center bills

Sided with residents on 25% of votes across 11 data center bills.

Note

Received Contributions from Steve DelBianco (President of NetChoice) lobbied in Pierre through for 50 year tax breaks for data centers and against all resident protections. Also Received contributions from SD Action Committee for Rural Electrification (listed as ACRE)

Voting record

On 2026-session data center bills · Senate record

HB 1038Voted For

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

SB 127Voted to Kill

limit nuisances caused by data centers.

SB 128Voted to Kill

update provisions related to certain large-use customers of utilities.

SB 135Voted For

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

SB 232Voted to Kill

impose a one-year moratorium on the construction or expansion of hyperscale data centers.

SB 234Voted to Save

modify provisions pertaining to the purchasing of goods and services related to data center operations.

SB 235Voted For

protect residents from increased utility costs and utility shortages caused by data centers, to clarify authority to regulate data centers, and to modify provisions pertaining to the purchasing of goods and services by a data center.

SB 239Voted For

modify provisions relating to the reinvestment payment program, and relating to the purchasing of goods and services used by projects approved for the reinvestment payment program.

Campaign money

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$22,171in reported receipts

Deibert4Senate31 d.b.a. Friends of Deibert4Senate31

Flagged contributions to their own committee

  • AData center and Big Tech industry$1,000
  • BUtility, power and energy interests$700
Flagged total$1,700

Money spent by others

This is not Randy Deibert’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$34,149

Flagged donors, largest first

  • Steve DelBianco-MetChoice $1,000
  • SD Ethanol Producers Pac $500
  • Steve Willard $200
Every itemised contribution on file (26)
Myles Kennedy$1,000
Steve DelBianco-MetChoice X McLean, VA 22101A$1,000
Christy Or Jim Neiman$1,000
SOUTH DAKOTA EPIC$1,000
Contribution Statement you received from the entity. Larson Family Ltd Partnership$500
COTEL$400
SD ACRE$300
SD Petroleum and Propane$250
John Frederickson$250
Michael Headley &$250
Timothy Reed$250
Richard Pluimer$250
MDU Resources GroupC$250
Tim Dougherty$200
Jerry Krambeck$200
Barbara Cline$200
Steve WillardB$200
Anonymous Na Na, SD 00000$100
Anonymous Na Na, SD 00000$100
Anonymous Na Na, SD 00000$100
David Hersrud$100
HY-VEE Inc Employees PACC$100
Anonymous Na Na, CO 00000$50
Elizabeth Freer Anonymous Na Na, SD 00000$50
Anonymous Na Spearfish, SD 57783$20
Anonymous Na Na, SD 00000$1

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

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