Utility watchdogs accuse PGE of skirting new law meant to make data centers pay for rising demand

Utility watchdogs accuse PGE of skirting new law meant to make data centers pay for rising demand

Oregon’s largest electrical utility is proposing to make residential customers pay at least part of the long-term cost of supplying large data centers, despite a new law requiring it to charge the centers’ developers, not other customers.This summer, Oregon became one of just a few states to pass a law requiring data centers to foot the costs of growing energy and transmission infrastructure that’s needed to power them.The POWER Act mandated Ore…