Energy and climateFinding

Large data centers should pay the full cost of new power plants and grid upgrades built to serve them.

Utilities often spread the cost of new power plants and transmission lines across all their customers. This would charge the cost of capacity built for large data centers, many of them serving artificial intelligence, to those data centers.

Jon Ossoff

Democratic Incumbent
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Without proper safeguards, higher prices and capital costs from increased generation could be passed onto Georgia families.

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