New York A09297 requires hyperscale data centers to fund household electrification measures to offset their electricity demand.

New York A09297 mandates that hyperscale data centers fund household electrification measures to offset their electricity demand. The Island Power Authority must establish a program for 29 data centers within its service territory. Each new data center, or any existing data center undergoing a major expansion that will meet or exceed twenty megawatts of additional load, must fund a program to provide a discount or credit on the electric utility bills of the local utility's residential customers in a host community or install eligible residential technologies for such customers.

New York A09297 requires hyperscale data centers to fund household electrification measures to offset their electricity demand.

New York A09297 mandates that hyperscale data centers fund household electrification measures to offset their electricity demand. The Island Power Authority must establish a program for 29 data centers within its service territory. Each new data center, or any existing data center undergoing a major expansion that will meet or exceed twenty megawatts of additional load, must fund a program to provide a discount or credit on the electric utility bills of the local utility's residential customers in a host community or install eligible residential technologies for such customers.