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The cost question for AI data centers runs through utility rate structures.
Growing power loads generate infrastructure and operating expenses, and when regulators allow utilities to recover those costs through customer charges, the bill lands on ratepayers.
Congress built a bipartisan coalition around legislation to limit those increases. Martin Heinrich, Democrat of New Mexico, blocked the bill, calling it a half-measure.
Heinrich's framing is the detail that shapes what happens next. A senator who calls a bill insufficient is not the same as one who opposes the underlying goal.
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