Ice Miller partner Tyler Ochs was quoted in the Bisnow article, "Senate Bill Offers Data Centers A Faster Path To Power, But At A Price.”

The article included:

Still, Tyler Ochs, partner in Ice Miller’s real estate, environmental and energy law group, said the industry’s largest players have learned to navigate this environment. They are building business models and financing structures around the need to deploy significant chunks of capital early.

At the same time, he said smaller developers, newer entrants to the sector and regional operators in states without existing large-load tariffs could find themselves on shaky ground.

“If the federal legislation gets passed, it may be a whole new world for them,” Ochs said. “But for a majority of companies that are operating across different states in the U.S.,none of this is going to be new to them. For the big ones, it’s business as usual.”

Both Thramann and Ochs said that given the patchwork of state tariffs and local rules that developers must contend with, most major developers will gladly pay any added costs created by BAAJA if it offers something they consider of even greater value: certainty.

Ochs compared the current regulatory landscape to the early days of NIL in college football — a Wild West environment where no one is certain about the rules of the game they are playing. He said his clients tell him they will gladly trade higher costs for predictability.

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