Senate GRID Act Targets Data Center Energy Crisis: Inside the Bipartisan Push to Regulate Big Tech’s $1 Million-Per-Day Power Problem

“Senator Tom Cotton’s DATA Act offers what some analysts view as the most industry-friendly approach. It creates a new regulatory category called “consumer-regulated electric utilities” (CREUs) for fully off-grid power systems serving data centers. CREUs would be exempt from FERC rate regulation, reliability standards, interconnection queue processes, and transmission planning requirements. Proponents argue this could reduce project timelines by four to six years by bypassing the interconnection queue — a bottleneck that currently delays data center projects across the country.”

https://tech-insider.org/senate-grid-act-data-center-energy-regulation-2026/