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Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N. M.) blocked bipartisan legislation designed to limit data center-driven utility cost increases, dismissing the measure as a half-measure and leaving no federal cap on how much AI power demand can be passed through to ratepayers. The stall keeps the current cost-allocation regime intact, which is near-term supportive for regulated utilities and independent power producers serving hyperscaler load, while preserving the political risk that a tougher successor bill later shifts more of the interconnection and capacity bill onto data center operators. Watch whether a revised draft emerges with stricter large-load tariff requirements, since that would raise the effective power cost curve for AI capex plans and for energy-intensive crypto mining and HPC hosting sites.
As a Policy signal, watch whether it changes price action, volatility, or flows around NVDA, MSFT, GSPC.
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