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title: "Virginia orders Dominion Energy to bill data centers for their own transmission costs"
url: https://www.parallelquant.com/posts/virginia-orders-dominion-energy-to-bill-data-centers-for-their-own-trans-be3000
source_name: "Data Center Dynamics"
source_url: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/virginia-regulators-order-dominion-energy-to-directly-assign-transmission-costs-to-data-centers/
published: 2026-08-10T15:12:39.000Z
topics: ["policy", "infrastructure"]
publisher: "Parallel Quant"
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# Virginia orders Dominion Energy to bill data centers for their own transmission costs

*2026-08-10 · Source: [Data Center Dynamics](https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/virginia-regulators-order-dominion-energy-to-directly-assign-transmission-costs-to-data-centers/)*

Virginia regulators ordered Dominion Energy to directly assign transmission costs to data centers rather than spreading them across all ratepayers. The order follows growing scrutiny from state regulators over AI-driven electricity demand.

**Why it matters:** This is one of the more concrete regulatory responses yet to the backlash over AI data centers raising electricity bills for ordinary ratepayers, a grievance that has fueled hundreds of local moratoriums nationwide. Cost-allocation rules like this could become a template other states adopt, directly changing the economics of where and how AI data centers get built.

**Topics:** policy, infrastructure

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