The Kentucky General Assembly has an appetite for bringing data centers to Kentucky, and House Bill 593 addresses concerns about ratepayers getting stuck with higher electrical bills as a result.

Representative Josh Bray, Bill's sponsor and House chair of the Artificial Intelligence Task Force, says companies who want to build data centers in Kentucky have three options for energy.

You know, we recognize that data centers in Kentucky are important, but we want to make sure that when they come in, they either bring their own generation, which a lot of big tech companies are wanting to do.

They purchase their power on the open market, or they prepay for any, generation or transmission, cost increases up front.

In my conversations with the big tech companies that we want Kentucky doing business with, they are absolutely on board with this.

I think it's, it walks a very fine line.

House Bill 593 overwhelmingly passed the full House today by a vote of 90 to 8.