Senate Democrat blocks House-passed bill on data center electricity costs

Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) blocked Sen. Jon Husted’s (R-Ohio) Thursday effort to unanimously pass a bill that seeks to force states to consider making tech companies cover their data centers’ electricity price impacts. The New Mexico Democrat blocked the Ohio Republican’s effort to pass the Ratepayer Protection Act through a process called unanimous consent, arguing...

Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) blocked Sen. Jon Husted’s (R-Ohio) Thursday effort to unanimously pass a bill that seeks to force states to consider making tech companies cover their data centers’ electricity price impacts. The New Mexico Democrat blocked the Ohio Republican’s effort to pass the Ratepayer Protection Act through a process called unanimous consent, arguing...