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Yet, in an alarming conflict of interest, all three advisors selected to advise the Fed on AI have financial ties to the industry.\n\nThe full text of the letter is available here and below.\n\nDear Chair Warsh:\n\nWe write to request that you ensure that the Federal Reserve’s (“the Fed”) newly-announced Task Force on Productivity and Jobs includes the perspective of individuals who represents the interests of workers. Congress gave the Fed a dual mandate that includes promoting maximum employment, and Artificial Intelligence’s (AI) potential to disrupt the labor market bears directly on the Fed’s ability to fulfill that mandate. We welcome the Fed evaluating AI’s effects on productivity and jobs, but it is important that the Fed search outside of industry when appointing alternative, diverse viewpoints for this new task force.\n\nOn June 17, 2026, you announced the creation of five task forces to “advance the conduct of monetary policy.” The task forces have been directed to “follow the evidence, provide candid feedback, and produce rigorous findings for the Federal Open Market Committee” (FOMC). This included a Task Force on Productivity and Jobs, which is tasked with “assess[ing] the economic impact of new general-purpose technologies, including artificial intelligence, to inform the Federal Reserve’s policy judgments.” The Fed explained that the task forces would be “co-led by external advisers . . . with deep expertise in their fields” and “supported by Federal Reserve Staff.”\n\nOn July 9, 2026, the Fed announced the three individuals who would lead the Task Force on Productivity and Jobs: Marc Andreessen, cofounder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz; Charles Jones, a researcher at the Anthropic Institute; and Asha Sharma, executive vice president at Microsoft and Xbox CEO. All three have direct financial ties to the AI industry.\n\nThese potential conflicts were raised directly at your press conference on July 29, 2026, where you defended your selection process by explaining that your approach to building each task force was to find “the best subject matter experts anywhere in the world and put them together,” particularly with people who “might disagree with them.” You added that this design was meant to ensure each panel could have its own “family fight” of divergent views. By your standard, however, a task force whose members are all financially tied to the AI industry cannot produce the genuine “divergence of views” that you say you support.\n\nMultiple members on the Senate Banking Committee, including Senators Warnock and Smith, raised these questions during your hearing before the Committee on July 15, 2026. 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The lawmakers urged FERC to require PJM Interconnection (PJM) to implement strong protections that would ensure fair energy costs for Marylanders after PJM, the grid operator responsible for coordinating electricity transmission in the region, assigned roughly $2 billion in costs to Maryland ratepayers for infrastructure that is needed primarily to serve out-of-state data centers. The lawmakers’ letter supports a complaint at FERC filed by the Maryland Office of People’s Counsel challenging PJM’s existing transmission cost allocation rules.\n\n“As members of the Maryland Congressional Delegation, we write regarding a pressing matter that has the potential to significantly raise energy costs for our constituents. PJM Interconnection LLC’s (PJM) existing transmission cost allocation rules result in the unjust assignment of billions of dollars in costs to Marylanders, contributing to unaffordable electricity bills,” the lawmakers begin.\n\nOn the rising costs of electricity due to data centers outside of Maryland, the lawmakers write, “Data centers being built outside of Maryland are driving one of the largest transmission expansions in PJM’s history. Across its three most recent regional transmission planning rounds, PJM has advanced $22 billion in projects needed principally to serve data centers. Under PJM’s current cost allocation rules, roughly $2 billion of those costs have been assigned to Maryland ratepayers rather than the data centers that are driving the demand.”\n\n“Marylanders are already shouldering the immense burden of skyrocketing electricity costs, and it is unjust and unreasonable to force our constituents to subsidize the energy infrastructure needs of the wealthiest companies in the world. Unless the Commission acts, our constituents will pay an estimated $1.6 billion on their electric bills over the next ten years for these projects alone, and $823 million of that total cost will fall on residential customers, which equates to roughly $345 for the average customer,” the lawmakers continue.\n\nOn PJM’s current cost allocation rules, the Maryland lawmakers note, “PJM’s cost allocation rules have not kept pace with the build out of hyperscale data centers, just one of which can equal the electricity demand of a small city. PJM’s current rules spread costs broadly across the region regardless of where, and for whom, the underlying projects are actually needed. Maryland regulators have no ability to assign such costs to data centers located in other states, and with tens of thousands of megawatts of additional data center demand growth projected across PJM over the next two decades, our constituents face billions of dollars in further charges absent Commission action to address this unjust and unreasonable cost allocation. Furthermore, because much of the forecasted growth in data center energy demand is speculative, our constituents bear the unacceptable risk of paying for projects built to serve potential data centers that are never built due to any number of external reasons.”\n\n“We urge the Commission to act expeditiously to provide relief from these costs for Maryland ratepayers, including as requested in OPC’s complaint. Thank you for your consideration of this important issue that is essential to ensuring just and reasonable energy costs for our constituents,” the lawmakers conclude.\n\nThe full text of the letter is available here and below.\n\nDear Chairman Swett,\n\nAs members of the Maryland Congressional Delegation, we write regarding a","url":"https://www.vanhollen.senate.gov/news/press-releases/maryland-democrats-urge-ferc-to-protect-marylanders-from-rising-electricity-costs-due-to-out-of-state-data-centers","published_at":"2026-07-27","ai_topics":["data_centers"],"ai_stance":"support","ai_summary":"Van Hollen and Maryland Democrats press FERC to shift data-center-driven transmission costs off Maryland ratepayers.","ai_processed":true,"bill_ids":[],"ai_relevance_score":null,"bill_refs":[],"classifier":null}],"donations":[{"id":"4051520261510433182","politician_id":"V000128","donor_name":"TUCKER-RAY, WILLIAM","donor_type":"individual","donor_employer":"GOOGLE LLC","employer_canonical":"Google / Alphabet","donor_category":"employee","match_rule":"contributor_employer:Google","amount":250,"donation_date":"2026-01-05","cycle":2026,"fec_committee_id":"C00573758","fec_transaction_id":"4051520261510433182","filing_url":"https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?202604159862574404"},{"id":"4081120251215801173","politician_id":"V000128","donor_name":"STOCCO, GABRIEL F.","donor_type":"individual","donor_employer":"MICROSOFT","employer_canonical":"Microsoft","donor_category":"employee","match_rule":"contributor_employer:Microsoft","amount":500,"donation_date":"2025-04-28","cycle":2026,"fec_committee_id":"C00573758","fec_transaction_id":"4081120251215801173","filing_url":"https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?202507159763262013"},{"id":"4081120251215800497","politician_id":"V000128","donor_name":"BENSON, RON","donor_type":"individual","donor_employer":"AMAZON","employer_canonical":"Amazon","donor_category":"employee","match_rule":"contributor_employer:Amazon","amount":500,"donation_date":"2025-04-25","cycle":2026,"fec_committee_id":"C00573758","fec_transaction_id":"4081120251215800497","filing_url":"https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?202507159763261788"},{"id":"4081120251215800557","politician_id":"V000128","donor_name":"CHOI, DAN","donor_type":"individual","donor_employer":"MICROSOFT","employer_canonical":"Microsoft","donor_category":"employee","match_rule":"contributor_employer:Microsoft","amount":1000,"donation_date":"2025-04-16","cycle":2026,"fec_committee_id":"C00573758","fec_transaction_id":"4081120251215800557","filing_url":"https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?202507159763261808"}],"outside_spending_totals":[],"provenance":{"commit":"38624a3af16ec6b3fff9b27c7d1d9f2cb7fe9152","generated_at":"2026-09-11T15:06:57.105Z","schema_version":2,"manifest":"https://whovotedwhy.com/data/index.json"}}