Keeping data centers’ costs off families’ power bills
A new Florida law requires utilities to develop rate structures ensuring data centers bear their electric service costs.
A new Florida law requires utilities to develop rate structures ensuring data centers bear their electric service costs.
Hyperscale and large-scale data center proposals are now active in at least eight Florida counties.
Florida’s regulatory process makes outcomes like FPL's highest-in-the-nation profit margin almost inevitable.
Advocates say communities on the front lines of the climate crisis are hardest-hit by costs
Legislation that would have helped families with electricity bills ended up stalling this past session.
SB 484 requires data centers to use reclaimed water when it is 'environmentally, economically, and technically feasible.'
The approved version would allow state agencies to sign non-disclosure agreements with companies.
Under HB 1461, the Public Service Commission would gain power to regulate advanced nuclear reactors.
A pair of bills aimed at environmental protection and business growth surrounding AI data centers advanced.
Nuclear energy is an alternative to natural gas, which currently provides more than 70% of our state’s electricity.
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