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.
Supports ensuring that data centers pay their fair share of grid-related costs.
Occurrences
Pallone writes that while he supports these goals, FERC should impose the following improvements to strengthen them: Ensure that data centers are responsible for all the costs they cause, not just for new power plants designed to shore up reliability; Make the requirement for data centers to bring their own new generation capacity online permanent; and Make the proposed data center registry public so that every American has access to the information they need to protect and empower their communities.
Evidence
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Assessments
The provided evidence shows Pallone actively engaged in 2026 on electricity pricing and ratepayer costs in PJM, but it does not directly show that he supported, advanced, or helped deliver a policy specifically requiring data centers to pay their fair share of grid-related costs. Because the claim is data-center-specific and the evidence is only about broader grid pricing and consumer protection, there is not enough to credit delivery, partial delivery, or a failed serious attempt on this exact promise.