Katie Jereza

person · Assistant Secretary, Office of Electricity, US Department of EnergyCredibility: 60%

Why this score? Senior DOE official, authoritative about departmental policy and the content of its own studies. Scored at the middle band because the specific claim recorded here — that data-centre operators will pay their fair share — rests on a voluntary pledge with no enforcement mechanism, and an official defending an administration's voluntary instrument is an interested party on whether it works.

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Operators of forthcoming AI data centers will pay their fair share of grid costs — pointing to the President's voluntary ratepayer protection pledge, signed by technology companies, utilities and governors.^?

— Katie Jereza · Aug 24, 2026

Topic: state of ai/infrastructure

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Context: Not scoreable as written: no metric, no date, no definition of a fair share, and the pledge it rests on is voluntary and unenforceable. What would settle it is a rate case in which a datacentre's cost allocation is actually decided.