Casting a vote to protect Wisconsin families from data center-driven rate increases
This week, I voted YES on the bipartisan Ratepayer Protection Act, legislation to protect hardworking families and small businesses from being forced to pay for the massive energy infrastructure needed to power data centers.
H.R. 9340 requires state utility regulators to consider standards ensuring large-load customers cover the full incremental costs of generation, transmission, and distribution upgrades needed to serve their growing energy demands
Wisconsin families shouldn’t be stuck paying higher utility bills to subsidize massive energy demands, including from data centers. If a company needs massive amounts of power, Wisconsin families shouldn’t be left holding the bill. This legislation makes sure those costs are borne by the companies driving that demand, not hardworking families.
I made it clear that any data center development in Wisconsin must meet my non-negotiables: local buy-in, protecting productive farmland, protecting our water, building on existing infrastructure, and ensuring Wisconsin families and ratepayers are not forced to foot the bill.
This week's vote on the Ratepayer Protection Act reinforces that commitment
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This is simply bussiness, they need to pay their way
It would be a big mistake to get in the way of technology; they are free enterprise, but they need to pay their own bills. This A/I thing might seem scary, as we don't understand it well, but trying to stop it now will leave us with an incredible handicap if China gets ahead of us on this. We can't stop it; we can't even slow it down. Allowing others to get this is like allowing the Japanese to get the nuclear bomb before us; that would have been devastating to the world.
I did hope at one time that this artificial intelligence would be helpful; I thought it might be beneficial to the average democrat, but I was wrong again!
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