Evans backs the Ratepayer Protection Act to protect electricity customers
Gabe EvansU.S. representative from Colorado and House sponsor
Evans says the bill protects everyday Americans while helping the country compete in AI.
“The Ratepayer Protection Act is a bipartisan, commonsense solution that protects everyday Americans and ensures our nation can continue to win the AI race”
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Where this statement fits
Would Jon Husted's Ratepayer Protection Act protect households from data-center costs?
Jon Husted and the bill's House sponsors say the Ratepayer Protection Act would stop households from paying for infrastructure needed by large data centers. Critics question whether requiring regulators to consider protective standards would deliver that result.
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The Senate sponsor's announcement includes his statement and quotations from House sponsors Gabe Evans and Kathy Castor.
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Evans says families and small businesses should not cover new power-generation costs driven by data centers.
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The announcement says the bill would require states to consider cost-recovery standards for large electricity users. It describes those standards as a way to keep data-center infrastructure costs off other customers' bills.
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Why this label?
The action being evaluated is adopting the Ratepayer Protection Act. Evans argues that it is a justified consumer safeguard and should be adopted. His support is for this proposal, rather than a separate claim or remedy.
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