Supports ensuring that data centers pay their fair share of grid-related costs.

Ensuring that data centers pay their fair share will take cooperation across all these groups, and we need to ensure that they are engaging with each other and are working together to reduce costs for ratepayers.

Pallone states support for making data centers pay their fair share of grid costs.

Pallone Opening Statement at Energy Legislative Hearing | Democrats, Energy and Commerce Committee
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An official March 19, 2026 Pallone press release says he was pressing federal regulators to act as New Jersey electricity costs rose, warning ratepayers faced another increase.

This is a concrete same-term action on electricity pricing and ratepayer protection, but it does not directly show support for making data centers pay grid-related costs.

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Press Releases | Congressman Frank Pallone
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An official April 29, 2026 Pallone release says FERC extended the PJM electricity price cap after his push, which the office says spared New Jersey ratepayers a price hike.

This shows continued same-term engagement on grid pricing and ratepayer costs, but it still does not directly evidence the data-center-specific claim.

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Press Releases | Congressman Frank Pallone
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Pallone’s office says he supported a national AI data center moratorium at a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee markup and said Congress should ensure data centers do not harm power bills. The release says he supported bills limiting data center impacts and argued data center developers should be held accountable so consumers are not left with the bill.

This is direct, same-term official evidence that Pallone supported data-center-specific action to protect ratepayers from grid and power-bill costs, but it does not show a final enacted federal requirement that data centers pay those costs.

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Pallone Supports National AI Data Center Moratorium
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Pallone urged FERC to extend PJM’s capacity-auction price cap to protect New Jersey ratepayers. His letter said FERC action would allow time for reforms to protect ratepayers from electricity-price increases driven by data centers fueling AI tools.

This shows concrete federal regulatory advocacy on ratepayer protection connected to data-center-driven electricity demand, but it is broader than a data-center cost-allocation requirement.

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Pallone Urges FERC to Act as NJ Electricity Prices Surge, Warns Residents Face Another Spike
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Tom’s Hardware reported on a Monitoring Analytics PJM market report finding large price impacts from data center load and describing a solution in which data centers or other major users negotiate directly for power instead of spreading capacity costs across the broader market. The article also noted that a federal ratepayer pledge was not enforceable without federal law requiring FERC to prevent cost shifting.

This supports the policy context and indicates that, as of the report, a binding federal solution had not been enacted; it does not by itself prove Pallone delivered the promise.

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AI data centers trigger massive 'irreversible' 76% electricity price spike in largest US region — federal watchdog demands tech giants pay for their own power infrastructure
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