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Alabama’s Data Center Rate Battle | Huntsville News

Alabama’s Attorney General Steve Marshall is demanding sweeping reforms to how the state sets electricity rates, targeting the growing influence of massive data centers that are reshaping the energy landscape. For decades, rate-setting has relied on secretive, informal contracts with little public input — a system critics say unfairly shifts costs to everyday consumers. As Alabama races to build more data centers, residents and regulators clash over who should pay for the infrastructure: the industrial users themselves or the general public. While utilities like Alabama Power argue they…

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