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.
Seth Bodnar
His plan includes support of the Ratepayer Protection Act, to prohibit data center developers from passing costs on to Montana utility consumers
- Verification
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- Confidence
- Medium (0.60)
- Review
- Reviewed Sep 30, 2026 by edo.
Accepted sources
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- Seth Bodnar's verified accounts and sites.
- Website sethformontana.com (How verified)
- X @sethbodnarformt (How verified)
- Facebook @sethformontanacampaign (How verified)
- Instagram @sethbodnarcampaign (How verified)
- YouTube @sethformontana (How verified)
- Threads @sethbodnarcampain (How verified)
- Debate recording Sept 10, 2026 AAUW Glendive / Dawson Community College U.S. Senate candidate forum (How verified)
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