Seth Magaziner will pursue requiring data centers to pay their own energy costs and grid upgrade costs rather than passing those costs to everyday ratepayers.

Requiring data centers to pay for their own energy costs and grid upgrades, preventing those costs from being passed on to everyday ratepayers.

Magaziner committed to pursuing requirements that data centers cover their energy and grid upgrade costs.

Magaziner Releases Plan to Lower Energy Costs for Rhode Islanders | Representative Magaziner
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Requiring data centers to pay for their own energy costs and grid upgrades, preventing those costs from being passed on to everyday ratepayers.

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): Within the lookback window, Magaziner explicitly included this requirement in his energy agenda. The announcement establishes continued advocacy, but provides no evidence that the requirement has taken effect.

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Magaziner Releases Plan to Lower Energy Costs for Rhode Islanders | Representative Magaziner
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Vote Result: Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): The Senate rejected cloture on proceeding to the Ratepayer Protection Act, 57–43, short of the required three-fifths. This documents a legislative obstacle within the lookback window, not enactment or permanent abandonment.

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U.S. Senate: U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 119th Congress - 2nd Session
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the full, incremental cost of any generation, transmission, or distribution upgrade necessary to serve the load of such large-load customer

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): The House-passed bill proposes a cost-recovery standard covering qualifying data centers with peak demand of at least 100 megawatts. It requires regulators and nonregulated utilities to consider the standard rather than universally adopt it. The pending proposal does not establish delivery.

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H.R. 9340 — Ratepayer Protection Act, Senate Calendar Version
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Magaziner | Democratic | RI | Yea

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Immediately before the lookback window and before his October announcement, Magaziner voted for H.R. 9340, which passed the House 417–3. This is concrete legislative effort consistent with the commitment, while the proposed requirement remains unresolved.

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Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives
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