Members of the Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland Interconnection (PJM) — the organization that manages the flow of electricity to 65 million people across 13 states and Washington, D.C. — are deciding how to respond to new data centers that seek to join the electricity grid ( “Maryland advocates push to force data centers to pay for their own energy needs,” Nov. 17).

Unfortunately, decisions that PJM makes are biased against ordinary consumers, reflecting the views of its unelected voting members — most of whom are large utility companies. Expensive and energy-intensive data centers are being built across the PJM region at a rapid rate. These data centers, needed in the race for artificial intelligence or “AI,” are energy guzzlers.

Ratepayer and climate groups propose that data centers

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