Consumer Groups Warn Economic‑Development Rates and Data‑Center Deals Could Shift Costs to Households
AARP and other witnesses told senators that special rates and contracts for large new industrial customers — including data centers — risk shifting costs to residential customers and recommended tighter safeguards such as separate rate classes or incremental‑cost tests.
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Consumer advocates and critics of preferential industrial rates told a Senate Energy Subcommittee that language in House Bill 3309 and related proposals could allow “economic development” or transformational customers to receive discounts that shift costs to ordinary households.
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