Ratepayer Protection Act
The Senate debated the Ratepayer Protection Act, a bill about who pays for electric grid upgrades needed to serve large data centers. It would require state regulators and utilities to consider a standard making big data-center customers cover the full cost of any new generation, transmission, or distribution upgrades built for them, including financial assurances up front. Senator Husted said regular families should not see higher electric bills because of data centers’ power use, noted the House passed the bill with near-unanimous support, and called on Democrats to allow its passage. He framed the bill as part of lowering electricity costs.Written by AI from the debate. Updated .
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