Energy and climateFinding

Kansas should require large data centers to pay the full cost of the power lines they need.

New data centers can require power plants and transmission lines whose costs utilities may spread across all customers. This would assign those costs to the data centers instead of other ratepayers.

Ty Masterson

Republican
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