H.R.9655

The FAIR Data Act prohibits electric utilities from recovering costs associated with data centers from residential and small business consumers.

The FAIR Data Act amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to add a standard prohibiting the recovery of costs associated with data centers by certain electric utilities. Specifically, it prevents investor-owned electric utilities from recovering costs related to covered data centers from residential and small business consumers. A covered data center is defined as a facility or aggregation of facilities with a peak demand exceeding 75 megawatts, primarily containing electronic equipment for processing, storing, transmitting, or hosting digital information.