Pine Bluff Commercial: Data Centers can lower electricity costs in Arkansas
In a Pine Bluff Commercial column, PFT president Brad Viator highlights Arkansas as a model for how states can support AI-driven economic growth while protecting electricity customers.
“The historic economic growth happening in Arkansas shows that when lawmakers and utilities take a thoughtful approach to integrating large customers into public electric grids, new industry like data centers can lower — instead of raise — power bills and boost the reliability of the electric grid. This approach is not only benefiting Arkansas residents today it is also establishing a model that other utilities across the country can follow. “