Not My Bill
Advocating for common-sense protections for Montanans from data center development
Protecting Montanans’ Wallets, Water, and Way Of Life from Unchecked Data Center Development
Montana is at a crossroads.
Big Tech companies are racing to develop massive data centers across the state, consuming massive amounts of electricity and water resources. Demands by data centers will raise utility bills for other ratepayers with water use requirements that would drain and pollute already-stressed and finite water resources and waterways.
Big tech developers want Montana families, businesses, and workers to pay the bill. Not My Bill exists to make sure officials protect people from paying data center developers’ bills.
Why Montana Needs Common-Sense Protections
Utility Ratepayers: Montana households, workers, and small businesses lack protections to ensure they are not being forced to subsidize data center infrastructure and power use through their utility bills. Ratepayers need protections and transparency to prevent utilities and developers from shifting data center costs onto their bills.
Water Resource: Private water rights, agricultural users, waterways and rivers, reservoirs and lakes, and groundwater aquifers all face clear threats from data centers due to the lack of rules, inadequate protections, and existing loopholes. Data centers will exploit, deplete, and pollute our finite water resources without action.
Transparency and Local Control: Non-transparent data center proposals are receiving approvals before neighbors and communities have a say on how it might impact their way of life and future. The lack of transparency, public disclosure, and early notice by data center developers, utilities, and local governments is unacceptable. People, neighbors, and communities must have a voice in decisions and their futures.