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This bill mandates that large data centers, defined as facilities with a peak electricity demand of at least one hundred megawatts used for processing, storing, or transmitting data, must directly pay for the energy costs associated with their operations, including fuel, generation, and transmission expenses. This provision applies to both public power entities, which are organizations that own and operate electric generation or distribution facilities, and the corporation commission, which oversees public service corporations. Crucially, these energy costs incurred by large data centers cannot be passed on to other customers of either public power entities or public service corporations, ensuring that the financial burden of their high energy consumption remains with the data centers themselves.

Agriculture and Natural Resources, Business and Industry

https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/BillOverview/85088