The General Assembly should protect Georgians, not Georgia Power! 

After gutting SB 34, a compromise was made to amend SB 410 (the data center equipment sales and use tax exemption repeal) with the following language:

“It is the intent of the General Assembly that the marginal costs of providing electric service to new large-load                                                         customers will be borne by such customers and not residential or retail electricity customers.”

The amended version of SB 410 passed by the Senate Finance Committee includes empty lines about legislative intent, but nothing to codify real protection for residential and small business customers. Contracts would require large-load customers to pay the cost of transmission upfront, but not the cost of building five or more new natural gas plants added to the system just to serve these new customers.
The General Assembly should pass a bill that codifies a simple principle: the cost of building generating capacity to serve large-load data center customers shall not be transferred to other customers.
 

Call or email your Senator today and tell them: Georgia Power’s residential and small business customers should never subsidize the massive buildout to serve data centers. The General Assembly should protect Georgians, not Georgia Power.