Who Pays for Data Center Power?
Texas has set the standard for data centers: pay your own way, bring your own power, lower costs for Texans. Here is how it is already being put into action and how Texans come out ahead.
The Texas Standard
New data centers must bring their own power and help lower residential electricity rates. That means no cost shifting to Texas families and lower bills for Texans, all while keeping the thousands of jobs and billions in investment that other states are turning away.
Texas Leadership in Action
In Hall County, Lancium and QTS are building a data center campus that brings its own power, including on-site solar and battery storage, and funds 100 percent of the energy infrastructure improvements. The upgrades strengthen the grid for existing customers instead of shifting costs onto them.
How Texans Benefit
CenterPoint Energy projects more than $5 billion in savings for Texas electric customers over the next decade as data centers and other large users pay their share of fixed grid costs. Under these Texas standards, families and small businesses carry less of the load. That is how data centers lower the cost of electricity for Texans.
Stand With the Texas Standard
If data centers want to build in Texas they must pay their own way, bring their own power, and lower electricity costs for families and small businesses. Add your name to show Texas leaders that Texans support these common-sense standards.
