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An Open Letter

To: Sen. Ginn, Rep. Wiedower, Gov. Kemp

From: A constituent in Athens, GA

February 5

Georgia Senate Bill 34 aims to prevent electric utilities from passing on the costs incurred from providing services to commercial data centers onto residential customers. This bill would prohibit such costs from being included in any rates or charges unless they are specifically designed to recover those expenses solely or substantially from the data centers themselves. As data mining operations and large-scale commercial data centers consume substantial amounts of electricity, it is only fair that they bear the associated costs rather than burdening residential customers. Utility companies should not be allowed to spread these considerable expenses across their entire customer base, unfairly impacting households and individuals who are not benefiting from serving these energy-intensive commercial entities. This legislation aims to ensure equitable rate structures that prevent cost-shifting from the data center industry onto ordinary residential customers. It upholds the principle that commercial operations should be responsible for the true costs of the services they require from utilities. Enacting this bill would protect residential customers from bearing an unfair share of the substantial energy expenses incurred by serving major data mining operations.

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