With new law in effect, data centers shouldn’t mean higher electric bills for the rest of us

By: Brian Martucci

Outlets: Minnesota Reformer

Published: March 27, 2026

Words: 1,532

Last Updated: 4 months ago

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The Minnesota utilities set to power two proposed Google data centers near Rochester and Duluth say the massive computing facilities won’t raise regular customers’ electricity bills.

There’s good reason to believe them, at least in the near term.

That’s because Gov. Tim Walz signed a law last year creating a separate class of “very large” utility customers separate from residential, commercial and most industrial customers. In practice, most will be …

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