Supports making major technology companies help pay for electricity demand from AI data centers

Van Drew supports a proposed emergency power auction that would have grid operators explore making major technology companies and large data centers directly help fund new electricity generation needed for their high demand. He says the approach should protect ordinary ratepayers from higher bills caused by energy needs they did not create.

Context: The passage describes support for President Trump’s proposal to have grid operators explore an emergency power auction; it does not establish that the auction has been adopted.

In their own words

ratepayers should not see their bills go up because of new energy needs they did not create.

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Retrieved: 11/12/2026