EdgeCore Says Data Centers Should Pay Their Own Power Costs

A data center developer says it will pay for all power infrastructure its facilities need, including generation, transmission lines, and delivery systems that can cost hundreds of millions of dollars. The White House launched a pledge in March calling on data center operators to fund their own power infrastructure and protect ratepayers from bearing those costs. The challenge is determining what counts as data center-specific costs versus broader grid upgrades that benefit other customers, since large facilities can trigger upstream system changes whose costs are harder to assign clearly.