Support requiring large data centers and other large-load electricity customers to pay the full incremental costs of power generation, transmission, and distribution upgrades needed to serve them, so residential customers do not face higher bills.

John James · Michigan · Republican

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Commitment kind: outcome. Promised action: Support requiring companies that build and profit from data centers to cover the increased electric-grid costs associated with those facilities.. Promised outcome: No increase in electricity bills for individual households due to data centers.. Deadline: unknown; not assumed expired. As U.S. Representative for Michigan's 10th Congressional District, James made the statement in a September 17, 2026 press release after voting for H.R. 9340, the Ratepayer Protection Act.

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“Families should not have to pay higher electricity prices due to data centers,” said James, R-Shelby Township. “If a local community decides it wants to allow a data center, then the companies that build and profit from the data centers should cover the increased costs. There should be no increase in electricity bills for individual households.”

James said data center companies should pay the increased electric-grid costs they create and that households should not see higher electricity bills because of data centers.

James: Families should not have to pay higher electric rates due to data centers | U.S. Representative
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