The Great Data-Center Rebellion

Data centers consume large amounts of power and require upgrading infrastructure. But it's difficult to determine how much residential customers benefit and how much they actually pay for the benefit.

Americans can meet this new challenge as we always have, leveraging our embrace of the free-market, entrepreneurial spirit, and institutional respect for private property and the rule of law — but only if we refuse to let the conversation be hijacked by a political agenda, and examine the…

The meteoric emergence of the data-center rebellion is a response to the speed and scale of construction, which in turn reflect the sudden ubiquity of generative and agentic AI.

The Ratepayer Protection Act, meant to protect consumers from costs of data centers, failed to reach the necessary 60 votes in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, despite near-unanimous support in the House. The bill was sponsored by Sen. Jon Husted, R-Ohio, who faces a special election in November.