AL SB270

Adds Section 37-4-22.1 to Alabama Code requiring Public Service Commission to apply specific criteria when reviewing retail electric service contracts between utilities and large load data centers (customers with at least 150 megawatts of electric load)

Contracts must provide for data centers to pay incremental costs of service, including generation, transmission, distribution, fuel costs, and taxes the utility would not otherwise incur

Contracts must promote positive benefits for all other retail electric customers of the utility to be deemed in the public interest

Positive benefits considerations include whether the contract could lower costs for other customers, increase utility power system efficiency, and promote economic growth in the data center's community

Effective date: October 1, 2026