Tell FERC: Stop Big Tech's AI Power Grab

The Trump administration is rushing the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to finalize sweeping new rules by April 30 that would hand Washington unprecedented control over how AI data centers connect to the power grid. Ratepayers across the country could be left holding the bag.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright directed FERC to act on an almost impossibly tight deadline — one that FERC itself has acknowledged it can barely meet. Consumer advocates have called the timeline "patently unreasonable," and FERC's own chair has said she'll push federal authority to its limits to deliver results for the White House.

The stakes are enormous. AI data centers can devour as much electricity as mid-sized cities. Tech giants — Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Meta, and others — are racing to build them and want fast, cheap access to the grid. Who pays for the billions of dollars in grid upgrades those connections require is still an open question. State regulators and consumer groups are warning that without clear cost protections, ordinary utility customers will be forced to subsidize infrastructure built purely for Big Tech's benefit.

Even conservatives have pushed back: a former FERC chairman nominated by Trump called the administration's approach a federal "power grab" that undermines the states. FERC can get this right — but only if the public demands it. 

Sign the petition to tell FERC to require AI companies to pay the full cost of their grid connections, protect state regulatory authority, and reject any rule that shifts Big Tech's infrastructure costs onto American families.

The petition to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission reads:

“Require AI data center developers to pay the full cost of grid upgrades, protect state authority over electricity markets, and reject any rule that shifts infrastructure costs onto utility customers.”