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With Electricity Bills Rising, some States Consider New Data Center Laws
States including Oregon and Delaware enact laws to make data centers pay higher electric rates and cover grid upgrade costs to protect households and small businesses.
- A Florida state Senate committee approved legislation to establish new electricity rate structures for data centers, with lawmakers in at least a dozen states targeting higher, separate rates.
- Lawmakers say the energy intensity of data centers has forced states to respond because, driven by rising digital services and energy‑intensive AI, consultants project significant future investments.
- States are demanding long-term contracts and financial guarantees, with the Data Center Coalition's Lucas Fykes saying, 'It's just not that simple.'
- Meanwhile, regulators warned that writing rules into law could limit flexibility, while consumer advocates say the state's largest utility is trying to shift long‑term data‑center infrastructure costs onto residential customers in a pending case.
- Data‑center site shopping creates forecasting challenges that officials say new rate structures aim to curb future increases rather than reduce current bills, protecting ratepayers and utilities.
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With electricity bills rising, some states consider new data center laws
Officials are now scrutinizing how power-hungry projects might affect the electric bills.
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Legislation to insulate consumers from data center electricity costs passes House committee
Georgia lawmakers are taking steps to ensure that the rapidly growing demand for electricity from data centers doesn't translate into higher power bills for residents. A new bill, HB 1063, aims to directly assign the costs of necessary power expansion to the data centers themselves, addressing widespread concerns among voters about affordability.
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