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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.
- Language it was published in
- en
- Date it happened
- 2026-05-07
- Organisation involved
- PJM Interconnection
- Product, system or model
- Transmission cost allocation for data centres
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