Energy and climateFinding
Large data centers should pay the full cost of new power plants and grid upgrades built to serve them.
Utilities often spread the cost of new power plants and transmission lines across all their customers. This would charge the cost of capacity built for large data centers, many of them serving artificial intelligence, to those data centers.
Pete Ricketts
Nebraskans should not be responsible for footing the bill of data centers," said Sen. Ricketts.
The Ratepayer Protection Act would require data centers to pay the full utility cost needed to serve them.
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