Utility Dive
Summary
This year, a wave of state laws is reshaping how America builds data centers. Ohio’s HB 15, effective in August, fast-tracks power build-out and microgrids for large loads. Texas’s SB 6, in effect since July, makes mega-load data centers responsible for interconnection costs and makes them curtail-ready when the grid is stressed.
States now need creativity to meet the moment with respect to data centers: concrete plans for where the power, water and grid capacity will come from, as well as how to create good jobs and benefit communities and the environment. Against this backdrop, we should be thinking about how data centers can stack functions for sustainability, efficiency and community benefit. And state governments, along with the federal government and municipalities, should be thinking about how to maximize these kinds of benefits.
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