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Maryland residents to pay $1.6 billion more in power bills due to out-of-state data centers: complaint

Maryland's Office of People's Counsel filed a complaint with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission against grid operator PJM, saying its cost allocation would make Maryland households pay about $1.6 billion over a decade for transmission built to serve data centres in other states, from which they do not benefit.

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Date it happened
2026-05-07
Organisation involved
PJM Interconnection
Product, system or model
Transmission cost allocation for data centres
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