The Trump Administration Wants to Protect Electricity Customers while Supporting Data Center Development. Here’s How.

“America’s electrical grid has become increasingly interconnected, allowing disruptions to cascade across wide geographic regions. As cyber threats grow more sophisticated, concentrating critical infrastructure on a handful of massive, synchronized networks creates vulnerabilities. A future with multiple privately financed electricity networks would be more diverse, more adaptable, and ultimately more resilient.

Fortunately, this vision does not require dismantling the existing grid. Congress can clarify that fully private, intrastate electricity networks fall outside many of the federal statutes governing traditional utilities, while states can establish clear legal boundaries between public utilities and private off-grid providers. New Hampshire, Ohio, and Utah have already begun moving in this direction.

The White House deserves credit for recognizing that AI infrastructure should not come at the expense of American ratepayers. But fully protecting consumers demands more than a pledge—it requires giving companies another way to build.

Data centers may be the first beneficiaries of CRE, but they will not be the last. The greater opportunity is an electricity sector that becomes faster, more innovative, and more competitive because entrepreneurs are once again free to build new kinds of networks with their own capital at their own risk. That’s how America built many of its most successful industries, and it’s how we can ensure that the next generation of energy infrastructure protects consumers while powering the technologies of the future.”

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