This is a great question from @DoctorVive! I’m still reading to analyze the data center related provisions myself, and one of my biggest concerns about data centers is the trend of their developers building “behind-the-meter” power generation, which overwhelmingly uses fossil fuels, does so in even worse, dirtier, and less efficient ways than the fossil fuels used by the grid (for example some data centers are self-powering with literal retrofitted jet engines), and “lock in” that fossil fuel pollution for the ENTIRE lifespan of the data center rather than decarbonizing over time if/when a grid’s energy mix adds more renewables. Data centers developers are increasingly engaging in this “behind-the-meter” self-generation strategy, despite it being more expensive for them, because: 1) grids often currently can’t support them joining, they don’t have the spare power to provide such a large customer, they don’t have the transmission to bring it to them, and building all that costs money, which they would have to raise somehow, which directly leads to the concerns about data centers increasing prices of utility ratepayer consumers. 2) building “behind-the-meter” allows data center developers to dodge some (not all) of the veto points available to local communities. So, what we WANT is a set of changes that will: -Incentivize data centers that are built to be powered by the GRID, not Behind-the-Meter, while making them pay for all the costs of that (the BAAJA bill appears to do this) -Disincentivize or ban data centers from using fossil fuels for Behind-the-Meter self-generation (the bill appears to be silent here). BAAJA makes it so that data centers can basically pay enough to build the new power generation and transmission to service them as part of the grid - which is worth it to developers, and better for decarbonization goals longterm.