Note
Received PAC contributions from Ottertail Corporation PAC and Applied Digital Corporation Nick Phillips (VP of external affairs) who lobbied in Pierre for 50 year tax breaks for data centers and against all resident protections. Received PAC contributions from SD Action Committee for Rural Electrification (ACRE PAC) & MidAmerican Energy Company. Several energy companies lobbied in Pierre for tax breaks for data centers this past legislative session.
Voting record
On 2026-session data center bills · Senate record
allow the Public Utilities Commission to assess actual costs to data centers that are customers of public utilities.
protect residents from increased utility costs and utility shortages caused by data centers and clarify authority to regulate data centers.
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
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.
Friends of Sydney Davis
Flagged contributions to their own committee
- AData center and Big Tech industry$2,000
- BUtility, power and energy interests$1,350
- CThe PAC funnel$10,250
Money spent by others
This is not Sydney Davis’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$29,254
Flagged donors, largest first
- South Dakota Republican Forward $10,000 [C]
- Steve DelBianco $1,000
- Applied Digital Corporation $1,000
- NextEra Energy Resources Develop $500
- South Dakota Ethanol Producers PAC $500
- DUSTY PAC $250
- Steve Willard $200
These named donors add up to $13,450, against the $13,600 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 (4)›
| (UNITEMIZED - gifts of $100 or less) | $1,520 |
| Contribution Statement you received from the entity. NextEra Energy Resources DevelopB | $500 |
| (UNITEMIZED - gifts of $100 or less) | $235 |
| NAME NOT RECOVERED - out-of-state PACC | $200 |
Collected via manual pull (verified). Contributor names appear exactly as the committee filed them. Donor addresses are not published.
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