• Utility customers in seven PJM Interconnection states are being charged $4.4 billion for transmission upgrades approved last year needed to bring data centers online, with similar results expected this year, according to a report from the Union of Concerned Scientists.
• The costs for local transmission needed for data centers falls into a “regulatory gap,” with the expenses for the upgrades typically being shared by all customers within a utility’s footprint, Mike Jacobs, senior manager in the UCS Climate and Energy Program, said in the report released Monday.
• The report calls for heightened oversight of data center-related transmission costs. “State and federal regulators must require that costs be assigned to the specific customer — or an appropriate rate class that is causing the costs — to avoid subsidization by all other customers,” Jacobs said in the report.

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