As States Make Data Centers Pay More For Power, Developers Prove Willing To Ante Up

Facing an unprecedented flood of data center proposals that require billions of dollars in grid infrastructure projects to power, a growing number of states and utilities are enacting measures to ensure developers — not consumers — will foot the bill. 

Developers and Big Tech tenants are proving willing to pay, as long as it means they get that power quickly. 

This month, regulators in Pennsylvania and Missouri — two of the country`s fastest-growing data center markets — have advanced measures allowing utilities to implement special rates for data centers that could add millions of dollars to the facilities` annual power bills...

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RSK: Many of us have been saying this all along.....WIsconsin needs to look into this.