Protecting Families from AI Data Center Energy Costs Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6529 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6529

To require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to hold a technical
 conference on protecting residential ratepayers from increased costs
          associated with large loads, and for other purposes.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 9, 2025

 Mr. Landsman (for himself, Mr. Beyer, Ms. Norton, Mr. Levin, and Mr.
    Tonko) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL

To require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to hold a technical
 conference on protecting residential ratepayers from increased costs
          associated with large loads, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Protecting Families from AI Data
Center Energy Costs Act''.

SEC. 2. FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION TECHNICAL CONFERENCE ON
              INCREASED COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH LARGE LOADS.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment
of this Act, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission shall hold a
Commissioner-led technical conference with representatives from the
Department of Energy, public utilities, transmission providers, State
regulators, ratepayer advocates, large loads (including data centers
used for artificial intelligence models), and such other participants
as the Commission determines appropriate, on strategies and rate
structures for protecting residential and small commercial ratepayers
from increased costs associated with large loads.
    (b) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date on which the
technical conference under subsection (a) concludes, the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission shall submit to the Committee on Energy and
Commerce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy
and Natural Resources of the Senate a report containing recommendations
and best practices resulting from such technical conference.
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