{"id":1040043,"date":"2026-10-01T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T03:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1040043"},"modified":"2026-10-01T09:28:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T03:58:43","slug":"who-pays-for-ai-congress-moves-to-put-data-center-power-costs-on-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/01\/who-pays-for-ai-congress-moves-to-put-data-center-power-costs-on-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Who pays for AI? Congress moves to put data center power costs on them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate is expected to take up legislation this week that would seek to protect US households and small businesses from paying for electricity infrastructure needed by large AI data centers. <\/p>\n<p>The Ratepayer Protection Act, which has already passed the House with overwhelming bipartisan support, would require states to consider rules ensuring that large data centers pay the full cost of new electricity generation, transmission and distribution upgrades needed to serve their facilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate is expected to take up legislation this week that would seek to protect US households and small businesses from paying for electricity infrastructure needed by large AI data centers. The Ratepayer Protection Act, which has already passed the House with overwhelming bipartisan support, would require states to consider rules ensuring that large data centers pay the full cost of new electricity generation, transmission and distribution upgrades needed to serve their facilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040063,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040043\/revisions\/1040063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}