Senate committee backs bill to make data centers pay PUC review costs The Senate Commerce and Energy Committee voted 7–2 to give House Bill 1038 a do-pass recommendation. The bill would allow the Public Utilities Commission to recover the cost of reviewing large data‑center contracts from the data centers themselves rather than from other utility customers.

South Dakota's Senate committee just backed a bill that could shift the cost of data center reviews from taxpayers to the tech giants themselves!

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