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Data centers are booming in Ohio. Regulators will decide who pays the growing electric bill

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Dozens of new data centers are popping up in Ohio , triggering a fight over who will pay for infrastructure costs.

Developers have expressed additional interest in the area that, if all materialized, would add a staggering 30,000 megawatts .

A state regulatory case could decide the answer.

Data centers need specialized hardware that can handle the industrial scale power.

AEP proposal unfairly “singles out’s data centers with a discriminatory pricing structure, expert says.

Audit finds it will be difficult to supply enough energy to keep pace with growing data center demand.

Data centers will require new generation and transmission costs going forward, audit finds.