Utah’s plan to power data centers

Utah is considering 2 ways to handle the impact of data center energy use. SB 132 (2025 | UT)  would “allow Rocky Mountain Power to step out of that regulated monopoly space and into the competitive space and contract directly with these large loads” according to the bill author. SB 227 (2025 | UT) is similar but does not require the large load contracts to be generation resource specific.

Route Fifty | Competing Senate bills try to answer the question, how should Utah power new data centers?