As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame. States feel pressure to act

In the midst of PA.-Ardan electric invoices, Harrısburg is under pressure to insulate the households and work fees from the costs of feeding Big Tech’s energy hungry data centers.

It is not clear that any state is a solution and that it is difficult to determine the actual impact of data centers on electricity bills. Some critics question whether states will get a harsh line against technology giants such as Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta.

However, since data centers rapidly accumulates the energy power plants and transmission lines, more than a dozen state began to take steps.

This meant forcing the country’s largest power network operator to shorten price increases, examining the effect of data centers on electricity bills, or pushing data center owners to pay a greater share of local transmission costs.

“Something that the legislators hear a lot. Something we hear about it. More people speak in the public service commission in the public service commission. “There is a big scream.”

Some data centers may require more electricity than cities the size of Pittsburgh, Cleveland or New Orleans, and make large factories look small compared. This forces policy makers to rethink a system that emits historically between consumer classes proportional to the use of electricity.

“Most of this infrastructure is built for billions of dollars, just a few customers and several facilities, and these are the richest companies in the world, Ar Ari Peskoe said. “I think some basic assumptions behind all these species.”

Peskoe said that a correction was a “worm box önemli that pits the classes that pay wages against each other.

Some officials underestimate the role of data centers in pushing the electricity bills.

Ticia Pridemore, who is the President of the National Organizing Commissaries Association in the Public Service Commission of Georgia, has already hardened against increasing costs, public services, transformers and generators as a bored electric supply and public services.

Pridemore said that the data centers required to meet the explosion of artificial intelligence are still in regulatory planning stages and that the members of the Data Center coalition representing large technology companies and data center developers are determined to pay their fair shares.

Increasing evidence, however, shows that some Americans’ electricity bills compete in a race against China for the superiority of artificial intelligence, while the major technology increased to subsidize great energy needs.

Wood Mackenzie, a data and analysis firm, has published a proposed or effective special ratio report that proposes that it is almost not enough to meet the cost of a new natural gas power plant in 16 states in recent weeks.

In other words, unless public services negotiate higher expertise rates, other paid classes – housing, commercial and industrial – probably pay for data center power needs.

Meanwhile, the monitoring of Analytics, an independent market keeper for the Middle Atlantic grille, conducted researches showing that 70% of the increasing electricity cost of last year in June was the result of the 9.3 billion dollar-veri-verbal center demand.

Last year, the five governors, led by Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, began to return against the power prices set by the mid -Atlantic grille operator PJM intermediate connection after about seven times this amount increased. He warned with customers more than necessary by paying billions of payments ..

The PJM has not yet proposed ways to guarantee that data centers pay their loads, but analytical monitoring reveals the idea that data centers should be necessary to ensure their own powers.

In a file last month, average people will prevent a “transfer of a great reserve” to technology companies.

At least one dozen states follows ways for data centers to pay higher local transmission costs.

In Oregon, a data center warm point, deputies passed the legislation in June and ordered the state public service regulators to develop new – more high – more power rates for data centers.

Oregon citizens say that there are clear evidence that costs are spread to all customers to serve data centers – some electricity bills have increased by 50% in the last four years and when public services intercourse more than ever.

Last month, the Governor of New Jersey signed a legislation by commissioning the state public service regulators to examine whether those who pay fees to connect data centers and develop a special ratio to develop data centers.

In some other states such as Texas and Utah, governors and MPs are trying to avoid a procurement and demand crisis that leaves wages in hooks or darkness.

In Indiana, state service regulators have approved an agreement between the Indian Michigan Power Co., Amazon, Google, Microsoft and consumer defenders, which set parameters for data center payments for service.

Kerwin Olsen of the Indiana Council, a consumer advocacy group, signed the settlement from the Action Council, and called a “quite good agreement en with more consumer protection than government deputies.

However, it will be difficult to determine whether the state laws do not force the users of electricity users to the public, such as data centers, or whether they pay their fair shares from the transmission costs. ”

In a March report, Harvard University Environmental and Energy Law Program questioned the motivation to ensure that public services and regulators are based on the cost of electricity for data centers.

He said that both public services and states have incentives to attract large customers such as data centers.

In order to do this, public services, which must be approved by regulators, can provide “special opportunities to preferred customers, such as a data center, and effectively change the costs of these discounts to those who pay normal fees. He said that many state laws can maintain the explanation of these rates.

In Pennsylvania, which is a data center warm point, the State Assistant Commission prepares a model ratio structure for the adoption of public services. An inclusive goal is to enable data center developers to put their money in their mouths.

Stephen Defrank, President of the Commission, said, “We are talking about real transmission upgrades, potentially hundreds of millions of dollars,” he said. “And that’s what you don’t want to pay the fee.”

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