Indiana consumer advocate files no objection to NIPSCO's GenCo data center funding plan

The state's consumer advocate is not objecting to a proposed order NIPSCO and large industrial customers filed to create a less regulated subsidiary called GenCo to fund the influx of data centers expected to come to northern Indiana.

The Indiana Office of the Utility Consumer Counselor, which represents consumer interests in utility rate cases, notified state regulators it had no objection to the proposed order that would allow NIPSCO to create a first-of-its-kind spinoff that would negotiate rates directly with data center developers who are already flocking to Northwest Indiana amid an unprecedented surge in national demand for data storage due in part to ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot and other power-guzzling artificial intelligence services. The OUCC filed a petition listi