Iowa and Georgia are two states that have taken decisive steps to secure their place in the 21st-century economy. Now both have a similar problem.

As the Iowa Economic Development & Finance Authority’s website boasts, Iowa got into wind energy “before it became trendy.” U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley sponsored the first nationwide tax credit for wind energy back in 1993.

Iowa now leads the country in wind power production and has attracted billions in investments by big tech companies like Google, Microsoft and Apple looking for cheap, clean power to run their giant data centers.

Grassley voted this year for the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB). He headed off a proposal to tax wind energy projects, and negotiated a “12-month runway” for new renewable energy projects to get the tax credit that go

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