Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News!. Large energy consumers must sometimes make a monthly payment to a utility that is a percentage of the maximum amount of electricity they predict that they will use. In Ohio, data center companies had agreed to pay 60 percent of the projected amount. But in May, AES Ohio proposed a new 10 year fee structure that would require data center operators like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta to pay 90 percent of the expected load, even if they don’t end up using that much. Why? Because those data centers consume prodigious amounts of electricity – far more than any other industry.