20261013Comments_2.pdf

The following comment was submitted via PUCWeb:
Name:Tracy Landauer
Submission Time: Oct 11 2026 5:27PM
Email: tracylandauer(cbyahoo.com
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 1010 N. 23rd St.
Boise, ID 83702
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power Company
Case ID: IPC-E-26-07
Comment: "I urge the Commission to ensure that new large-load customers, including data
centers, pay the full costs of the generation, transmission, substations, and other
infrastructure necessary to serve them. Existing residential and small-business customers
should not subsidize these projects or bear the risk of stranded infrastructure if projected
data-center demand does not materialize. If a large-load customer creates the cost, that
customer should pay the cost:'
The following comment was submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: Davis Straub
Submission Time: Oct 12 2026 2:14PM
Email: [e-mail]
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 3316 N Lakeharbor Lane E102
Boise, ID 83703
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Case ID: IPC-E-26-07
Comment: "Of course, the companies wishing to build Al data center should pay for all the
electrical infrastructure required to meet their needs, and with them desperate to build,
rate payers are in an excellent position to leverage them into doing that and more. The
greater the opposition to data centers the greater the bargaining power of rate payers. We
don't need to stop just with electrical infrastructure (and no increase in electric rates, and
Likely a decrease) but can call for closed loop water cooling with outdoor heat exchangers,
support for local college technical education, purchase of additional lands to add to public
Lands if used for data centers, as well as many other concessions. Of course, no sales tax
rebates or other tax concessions. Look at the concessions made by Meta for the Kuna Al
data center for a starting point:'
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