State Regulators Set Up Guardrails on Aggressive Data Center Construction Plans

October 22, 2025--Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--State regulatory panels have emerged as a powerful limiting force on developers' most expansive plans to build new data centers and other large loads, such as cryptocurrency mines, which could drive up electric load growth and capital expenditures (capex) as well as customer electric prices and bills. In at least one case, the existence of a specific new electric price plan requiring large loads to make a significant binding financial commitment to its local utility appears to have cut projected demand growth more than 50%.