{"id":22081,"date":"2026-04-30T14:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T14:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/lawmakers-agree-the-data-center-boom-shouldnt-hurt-ratepayers-now-comes-the-hard-part\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T14:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T14:32:10","slug":"lawmakers-agree-the-data-center-boom-shouldnt-hurt-ratepayers-now-comes-the-hard-part","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/lawmakers-agree-the-data-center-boom-shouldnt-hurt-ratepayers-now-comes-the-hard-part\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers agree the data center boom shouldn\u2019t hurt ratepayers. Now comes the hard part."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Democrats and Republicans concur on shielding people from energy costs associated with data centers. That doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re close to passing a law.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats and Republicans concur on shielding people from energy costs associated with data centers. That doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re close to passing a law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}