House energy chair drafts data center bill
The House energy committee chair is drafting legislation to give statutory teeth to some recent state actions to regulate data centers. A proposal by Majority Chair Elizabeth Fiedler, D-Philadelphia, addresses Gov. Josh Shapiro’s Aug. 18 executive order on data centers and actions by the state Public Utility Commission (PUC). “If a data center requires new generation, transmission, distribution or other grid infrastructure, the costs should be borne by the companies creating that demand — not spread across Pennsylvania’s existing electricity customers,” said Fiedler in a ...
