Data Centers: Taxpayers Can Be Victors, Not Victims, in the AI Revolution
Taxpayers should demand accountability, transparency, and fiscal responsibility from both public officials and private sector actors when it comes to any economic development, and data centers should be no different. Governments at all levels have provided productive (and sometimes, less productive) policy paths forward on data centers.
This report is intended to provide lessons that taxpayers across the nation can take to heart as they work to ensure that data centers leave us all better off in the next big step in America’s technologic and economic evolution. It can be done, because it is already being done in many parts of the country.
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Speed to Power: How Electricity Ratepayers Can Win the AI Race
Politicians at the federal and state levels are increasingly hearing from constituents over cost concerns, prompting legislatures to hold hearings and introduce legislation to protect ratepayers, including calls for data center moratoriums. Other states have proposed tax incentives to attract data centers.
There is another policy path forward that protects American taxpayers and ratepayers while enabling economic growth and increasing energy supply to meet rising demand: relieving regulatory bottlenecks that stifle energy infrastructure development and providing the certainty and flexibility for innovative technologies to help meet America’s energy needs.