California enacted laws targeting data-center infrastructure payments and a larger share of wildfire mitigation and liability costs.

Utility Dive reports that California Governor Gavin Newsom signed bills tightening oversight of data-center energy use and grid costs. The reported stage is enactment, rather than introduction of proposed legislation.

One stated objective is ensuring that data centers pay for the infrastructure needed to serve them. The supplied description addresses allocation of infrastructure costs but does not specify tariffs, minimum payments, customer thresholds, or implementation dates.

The laws also aim to make data centers bear a larger share of wildfire mitigation and liability costs. The excerpt supplies no percentage allocation, dollar amount, or detailed statutory mechanism, so the financial obligation for an individual operator cannot be quantified from this material.