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House passes bipartisan bill to shield ratepayers from data center electricity costs

Calls the bill a limited but useful step

The House voted 417-3 on September 16 to pass the Ratepayer Protection Act, a bill that pushes state regulators to make the largest data centers pay the full cost of the power infrastructure built for them. The goal is to keep America's AI electricity bill off ordinary households.

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