Oklahoma passes law requiring Big Tech data centers to pay their own infrastructure costs, protecting ratepayers

Big Tech pays its own bills. Not you.

The law is designed to protect Oklahoma families, small businesses, and traditional utility customers from rising utility and infrastructure costs tied to large-scale energy users such as data centers, cryptocurrency mining operations, and artificial intelligence facilities.

Big Tech builds a data center in Oklahoma — Big Tech pays for the power lines, the substations, and every infrastructure upgrade its facility demands. Not your grandmother. Not the family-owned restaurant. Not the farmer running a well pump. Not you.

The Data Center Consumer Ratepayer Protection Act passed the House floor and the Senate floor with a unanimous vote — winning approval from every single lawmaker who voted on it.

When a bill passes unanimously in both chambers with 36 bipartisan co-authors