Senate Democrat blocks House-passed bill on data center
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Sen. Martin Heinrich just told New Mexico families and every other American ratepayer they can wait. That's the takeaway from his move to block the Ratepayer Protection Act, a modest bill that would do nothing more than force state regulators to at least consider making data center giants cover the strain they put on the electric grid.
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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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Sen. Martin Heinrich just told New Mexico families and every other American ratepayer they can wait. That's the takeaway from his move to block the Ratepayer Protection Act, a modest bill that would do nothing more than force state regulators to at least consider making data center giants cover the strain they put on the electric grid. Jon Husted, the Ohio Republican, tried to pass it by unanimous consent. One senator killed it. That's how Washington works now, and it stinks.
The bill doesn't mandate anything. It simply says states should study whether hyperscale data centers, the kind that gobble more electricity than a small city, should pay their.
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