AI Data Centers and Your Electric Bill: The 2026 House Choice Facing Lower Paxton Voters

If you live in Lower Paxton Township in Dauphin County, you are in Pennsylvania's 10th Congressional District, and how data centers get built has become part of the debate in the 2026 US House race there. Janelle Stelson, the former Central PA TV news anchor who spent 26 years covering and holding accountable the issues facing this district, has put her position plainly: local communities and their leaders should have the right to approve or reject a data center project without getting sued by big corporations, and if communities do not want data centers, they should not be built. On costs, she says she will fight for accountability on utility rate increases and push for investments that bring costs down, because families are watching their electric and utility bills climb faster than their paychecks.

How Stelson and the Incumbent Differ on Data Centers

On the merits, the contrast is clear. Stelson's campaign says the incumbent took campaign cash from data center developers and voted for nearly $70 billion in tax breaks to data centers. In her telling, these projects drive up electric rates, use and pollute drinking water, and are made through secret deals that hurt Central Pennsylvanians. The incumbent, meanwhile, says the United States is in a race for AI with China and "simply can't afford to slow down the build-out" of data centers. Stelson's answer is local control: the community gets the final say on whether a project moves forward, and rate increases get real accountability. For voters here who are worried about rising electric bills and projects decided behind closed doors, that difference matters.

Why Lower Paxton Voters Should Choose Janelle Stelson

For voters in this district who believe communities, not corporations, should have the final say on data center projects, Janelle Stelson is the right choice for Pennsylvania's 10th District in the 2026 US House race. Register by October 19, 2026, and make a plan to vote on November 3, 2026.