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Duke Energy signs pledge to shield ratepayers from data center costs
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Fusion42 · 27 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
Duke Energy joins the Trump administration's Ratepayer Protection Pledge to prevent households and small businesses from bearing the cost of power infrastructure for data centers. North Carolina Democrats call for legally enforceable rate structures requiring data centers to pay separately and in full.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Cloud Infrastructure.
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Data center operators in North Carolina will soon face separate tariffs that force them to pay the full cost of grid infrastructure upfront, eliminating the ability to shift overrun costs to residential customers. This is spreading across US utilities—your power bill just became a negotiated line item, not a utility's cost pass-through.
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