Among other things, it asks the extent to which data centers are “paying their own way.” In June, the governor told the PUC to require data centers to fully fund the electric infrastructure needed to serve them. This is not a proposal that waves large-load projects like data centers onto the electric grid for free. When the grid needs work to serve a particular data center, does that data center pay for it, or does the cost show up on everyone’s power bill? Under the the commission’s proposed companion connection rule the commission, a data center pays outright, in cash, to connect itself.