Senate Democrat blocks House-passed bill on data center electricity costs
Senator Martin Heinrich blocked a Senate effort to pass the House-approved Ratepayer Protection Act through unanimous consent. The bill would require states to consider making tech companies cover electricity cost increases caused by data centers. The legislation was pushed by Senator Jon Husted.
Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) blocked Sen. Jon Husted’s (R-Ohio) Thursday effort to unanimously pass a bill that seeks to force states to consider making tech companies cover their data centers’ electricity price impacts. The New Mexico Democrat blocked the Ohio Republican’s effort to pass the Ratepayer Protection Act through unanimous consent, arguing that the bill...
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