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Northwest Indiana legislators press data centers to cover generation costs as utilities face rate pressure
Summary
At a Michigan City Third House session, state and local officials said data centers should bear the cost of new generation and possibly overbuild to reduce the state’s roughly 30% electricity imports, while warning federal mandates to keep coal plants online could raise rates.
State and local officials urged steps to prevent residential ratepayers from shouldering rising electricity costs as data centers and other "mega users" expand in Northwest Indiana.
"We import almost 30% of the electric that Hoosiers use today," said State Representative Jim Pressell, arguing that new or expanded data centers should shoulder more of the upfront generation costs needed to serve them. Pressell and other panelists said the Legislature has already required…
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