Prohibits electric corporations and gas corporations from passing along costs or increasing charges to ratepayers as a result of increased costs incurred due to the building or operation of a data center except to those ratepayers involved with or associated with the building or operation of such data center or semiconductor fabrication plant.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8536
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
October 20, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to prohibiting
electric corporations and gas corporations from increasing charges to
certain ratepayers due to the building or operation of a data center
or semiconductor fabrication plant
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 66 of the public service law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 33 to read as follows:
3 33. Prohibit electric corporations, gas corporations, and utilities
4 from passing along costs or increasing charges to ratepayers for elec-
5 tricity and natural gas, or any associated goods and services, as a
6 result of increased costs incurred by the electric corporation, gas
7 corporation, or utility due to the costs of capital expenditures or
8 maintenance of infrastructure resulting from the building or operation
9 of a data center or semiconductor fabrication plant; provided, however,
10 that such costs or increased charges shall be charged to ratepayers
11 involved with or associated with the building or operation of such data
12 center or semiconductor fabrication plant.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
14 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment
15 and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
16 of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
17 completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13633-03-5
