A bipartisan effort to make data centers pay for their growing demands on the power grid hit a roadblock in the Senate on ...

The U.S. House passed the Ratepayer Protection Act on September 16, 2026, voting 417 to 3 to require state utility regulators ...

Data centers are placing unprecedented demands on the U.S. electricity system. This is prompting Congress and a growing ...

Sen. Martin Heinrich objected to a unanimous consent request for the House-passed bill, likely killing its chances before ...

The federal PDPL, its scope and exemptions, lawful bases, data subject rights, transfers abroad, and how the separate DIFC ...

A bipartisan bill intended to protect Americans from electricity costs associated with new data centers has hit a roadblock ...

And Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) is pushing his bill, the Power for the People Act, which would prevent data center costs ...

The vote comes as lawmakers face increasing pressure to respond to the data center boom driven by the AI race.

The U.S. House has passed legislation backed by Rep. Josh Riley that would require large electricity users such as data ...

The bill deals with one element around public concerns over data centers, but Congress doesn’t seem poised to move on bigger ...

The bipartisan legislation would create a regulatory framework states could adopt to prevent data center-related energy costs ...

The bill offers an economically rational approach to federal advisory standards for a new class of energy customers larger than those seen before.