{"event":{"id":"evt-us-senate-dc-cost-vote-20260930","dedupe_key":"legislative_vote:2026-09-30:us-senate-blocks-ratepayer-protection-act-procedural-advance","event_type":"legislative_vote","title":"US Senate blocks Ratepayer Protection Act procedural advance","summary":"The Senate voted 57-43 to advance legislation directing consideration of cost-allocation standards for large electricity users such as data centers, below the 60 votes needed.","occurred_at":"2026-09-30T17:32:00.000Z","published_at":null,"observed_at":"2026-09-30T21:20:00.000Z","reconstructed_at":null,"ingest_type":"live_world_scan","locations":["United States"],"status":"verified","confidence":0.99,"metadata":{"actors":["United States Senate"],"epistemic_note":"This records the procedural vote and unresolved policy conflict, not an endorsement of either legislative approach."},"created_at":"2026-09-30T21:57:03.545Z","updated_at":"2026-09-30T21:57:03.545Z"},"artifacts":[{"id":"art-reuters-us-dc-cost-vote-20260930","canonical_url":"https://www.reuters.com/world/us-senate-set-block-bill-address-data-center-costs-2026-09-30/","artifact_type":"news_article","title":"US Senate blocks bill to address data center costs","summary":"The US Senate voted 57-43 to advance the Ratepayer Protection Act, short of the 60 votes required, leaving unresolved how incremental grid costs from large loads such as data centers should be allocated.","creator_entities":["Reuters"],"released_at":"2026-09-30T17:32:00.000Z","content_hash":null,"metadata":{"source_scope":"incremental_world_scan"},"created_at":"2026-09-30T21:57:03.542Z","updated_at":"2026-09-30T21:57:03.542Z","relation":"documented_by"}],"signals":[{"id":"sig-us-datacenter-cost-politics-20260930","statement":"Data-center electricity and grid-upgrade cost allocation has become an explicit federal legislative issue in the United States, but no durable federal settlement has emerged.","signal_type":"energy_governance","direction":"increasing","confidence":0.98,"epistemic_status":"observed_fact","mapping_mode":"contemporaneous","reconstructed_at":null,"created_at":"2026-09-30T21:57:03.547Z","updated_at":"2026-09-30T21:57:03.547Z"}]}