I’m glad that state regulators agreed with my request to directly assign the cost of transmission infrastructure to data centers that use them.” In some cases, the data centers will simply pay themselves for things like substations and power lines, the way a housing developer funds streets. Testimony in the transmission case included illustrations of the impact (positive for residential users) when those changes go into effect next year. In the transmission case, Spanberger was pretending to have an impact. Spanberger’s goal in intervening in the NextEra Dominion application is to protect and perhaps expand the Virginia Clean Economy Act.