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The House overwhelmingly passed bipartisan legislation Wednesday aimed at preventing consumers from being stuck with higher electricity costs caused by the rapid construction of massive AI data centers. The bill passed 417–3, NBC News reports. The Ratepayers Protection Act would establish a federal standard requiring regulators to consider making tech and data center companies rather than households and other consumers pay for power generation, transmission lines and other infrastructure upgrades needed to supply large data centers.