House passes Gabe Evans’ bill aiming to prevent data centers from driving up electricity costs
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bipartisan bill sponsored by Rep. Gabe Evans. This legislation aims to require state utilities regulators to consider adopting federal standards. These standards would make new data centers cover the full incremental cost of necessary electrical generation and transmission upgrades.
The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed the Ratepayer Protection Act, a bipartisan bill sponsored by Fort Lupton Republican U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans. The legislation, which passed with a nearly unanimous vote, is designed to ensure that large-scale data centers bear the complete, incremental cost of electrical generation and transmission infrastructure upgrades necessitated by their power demands.
The bill mandates that state utilities regulators consider implementing federal standards that would require these new data centers to cover the full expense of the electrical grid enhancements needed to power their facilities.