HB1038

The amendment NARROWS the bill by replacing the broader authority to assess costs for "large new customers" with a specific requirement that the Public Utilities Commission may only assess costs to data centers with a peak demand of ten megawatts or greater, and adds a definition of "data center" that includes digital currency mining operations.

The amendment clarifies that the PUC can only assess actual costs to data centers that are specifically customers of public utilities (rather than all data centers), and refines the definition of "data center" to focus on facilities whose primary purpose is storage, management, and processing of electronic data. This NARROWS the bill's scope by limiting cost assessments to data centers that actually receive utility service.

This change converts the bill from the engrossed Senate version to its enrolled final form, removing internal legislative formatting and adding signature pages for the Governor, Speaker, President, and Secretary of State—making no substantive changes to the bill's actual provisions allowing the Public Utilities Commission to charge data centers their actual processing costs.