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WILMINGTON, Delaware — Today, Sierra Club celebrated Delaware Governor Matt Meyer signing into law a suite of legislation that will protect families in the state from having to pay for Big Tech’s pricey artificial intelligence data centers.
The legislation being signed into law today is a first-of-its-kind bill that ensures data centers are building clean energy to power their data centers. It will also require data centers to pay their fair share of the electricity bill and to fund necessary infrastructure upgrades to strengthen the electricity grid. Another new law will address soaring energy costs by giving the Delaware Public Service Commission more oversight to limit rate hikes and increase transparency from utility finances.
Sierra Club Delaware Chapter has been actively engaging with communities to hold Big Tech companies accountable and demand more guardrails around data centers.
In response to the signing, Sierra Club Delaware Chapter Director Dustyn Thompson issued the following statement:
