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This 👇 is the way.“Big Tech pays its own bills. Not you.”On Monday, May 11, 2026, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed House Bill 2992 — the Data Center Consumer Ratepayer Protection Act of 2026 — into law. The name is long. The message is simple.The law is designed to protect Oklahoma families, small businesses, and traditional utility customers from rising utility and infrastructure costs tied to large-scale energy users such as data centers, cryptocurrency mining operations, and artificial intelligence facilities. That’s it. That is the entire point. Big Tech builds a data center in Oklahoma — Big Tech pays for the power lines, the substations, and every infrastructure upgrade its facility demands. Not your grandmother. Not the family-owned restaurant. Not the farmer running a well pump. Not you.