{
  "id": 8092511,
  "title": "Senate Democrat blocks House-passed bill on data center electricity costs",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/17/senate-democrat-blocks-house-passed-bill-on-data-center-electricity",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-17T19:24:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hill",
    "slug": "the-hill",
    "url": "https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/6096398-heinrich-blocks-husted-data-center-bill/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) blocked Sen. Jon Husted’s (R-Ohio) Thursday effort to unanimously pass a bill that seeks to force states to consider making tech companies cover their data centers’ electricity price impacts. The New Mexico Democrat blocked the Ohio Republican’s effort to pass the Ratepayer Protection Act through unanimous consent, arguing that the bill...",
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "CBS News",
        "title": "Senate Democrat blocks bill to shield Americans from data center energy costs",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/17/senate-democrat-blocks-bill-to-shield-americans-from-data-center",
        "published": "2026-09-17T18:40:29.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}