What about a making it prerequisite? Demonstrate you have built the nuclear/solar/whatever capacity to cover your own energy before you're allowed to build a datacenter?
Nuclear has extremely onerous regulatory requirements.
Let them buy energy, but why aren’t utilities’ power rates more strictly regulated?
Residential rates should be locked in with inflation, allow business rates to increase.
The only way to remove additional grid demand (and therefore cost) is to simultaneously flood the supply. The DCs should absolutely pay for that.
These are monopoly businesses where the government has full control over the policy of their operation.
I would generally make the argument that data centers aren’t any different than manufacturing or retail businesses. Their demand should be considered equal in terms of priority - the government shouldn’t be artificially choosing industry preferences unless it has very good reason.
Either you’re a business and you pay the business price or you’re an individual and you pay the individual price.
See you in 15 years I guess.
Many site are already building their own capacity, but doing it (unfortunately) with gas turbines.
and you've accomplished nothing
and if you make them hold a certain position they'll simply sell in another subsidiary, or use derivatives
the only way to deal with this type of parasitism is blanket refusal