Last week, MDN brought you a story about a developing issue of who, ultimately, should pay to build out new electricity sources for data centers (and AI) that increasingly use huge amounts of power (see Big Tech and Big Utility Tangle in Ohio re Data Center Electricity). A large utility company in central Ohio, AEP Ohio, is tangling with Big Tech companies, including Amazon, Google, and others, about the commitments those companies should make before it will risk investing billions to bring new power facilities (natgas, solar, wind, nukes, whatever) online. We have the next chapter in this ongoing saga. AEP Ohio filed a counterproposal on Wednesday that it hopes the state Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) will adopt. Big Tech is NOT pleased and says Ohio risks losing out on constructing new data centers should AEP’s counterproposal go forward.
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