A top Democratic senator blocked a Republican-led bill aimed at preventing Americans from paying high energy costs from data centers nationwide.

The bill passed with 417 votes in favor and only 3 against.

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

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

One Senate Democrat scuttled a Republican-led effort to pass legislation aimed at shielding Americans from energy costs attributed to data centers, saying it didn't go far enough.

Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., blocked bipartisan legislation aimed at reining in data center-related utility cost increases, ...

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Sen. Martin Heinrich blocked an effort to fast-track the bill through the Senate, arguing the bill does not go far enough to protect taxpayers from the costs of data centers.

Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) blocked Sen. Jon Husted’s (R-Ohio) Thursday effort to unanimously pass a bill that seeks to force states to consider making tech companies cover their data centers’ ...

The measure would direct state regulators to consider rules requiring data centers to cover higher energy costs, but it would ...

Data center companies now have an incentive to source their own power.

Senator Martin Heinrich blocked the House-passed Ratepayer Protection Act, arguing it lacks enforcement on data centers covering electricity costs. Heinrich proposed a stricter alternative, but it ...