Who pays for data center power lines? Virginia hearing could change the answer

Virginia's State Corporation Commission hearing on Dominion Energy's transmission cost recovery (Rider T-1) could shift billions in grid expansion costs from all ratepayers to data centre operators. The case challenges whether general electricity customers should subsidise infrastructure built primarily to serve Northern Virginia's data centre boom.

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