美国国会推动法案：AI数据中心须自付电网升级费用

US Congress is moving a Ratepayer Protection Act that would make AI data center builders, not ordinary electricity customers, pay for the new power plants, transmission lines, and grid upgrades their projects require.

The bill pushes states to create a large-load standard, meaning a data center that creates a huge new electricity burden can be put in a separate rate category and charged upfront, through special tariffs, deposits, guarantees, or contracts, so normal homes and businesses do not subsidize the infrastructure built mainly for that data center.

Tech firms already signed a White House pledge to cover new energy and delivery infrastructure for data centers, but this bill would give states a formal path to enforce that idea.

So this is the first serious federal move to put AI’s physical footprint into the price of AI itself, and it could make data center siting depend less on cheap land and more on who can fund reliable power fastest.

cnbc. com/2026/06/24/ai-data-centers-tech-companies-congress-energy-costs.html