We’re all paying a data center tax now; let’s get the AI companies to pitch in as well.

In case you couldn’t guess, this special class consists of plants that power data centers and are owned by the data center developer or operator. Second, the EPA somehow believes that this measure will encourage data center developers to “bring their own plant” – i.e., build generation needed to power a new data center. How exactly will the fact that the data center power plants will be exempt from some (or even all) environmental regulations encourage more data centers to bring their own plant? In other words, all of us (and especially the people that live close to the data centers, who – ahem! In this case, the tax might be imposed on the lease rates that the tech companies pay for the data centers (and if the same company built and operates the data center, they would still owe the tax).