🇺🇸The House passed a ratepayer-protection bill intended to limit shifting data-center costs onto other electricity customers.

The U.S. House passed legislation intended to limit the transfer of data-center-related costs to other electricity ratepayers. The reported milestone is House passage, rather than enactment into law.

Utility Dive cites ClearView Energy Partners as saying the legislation would “largely reinforce” a transition already underway. Its stated context is that more states are adopting large-load tariffs, placing the federal proposal alongside existing state-level changes in electricity pricing for large customers.

The supplied excerpt does not identify the bill number, voting margin, specific cost categories, or implementation requirements. It also provides no quantified estimate of customer savings or data-center charges, so the update supports a legislative-stage assessment rather than a numerical assessment of electricity-bill effects.