Taiwan's Legislative Yuan Economics Committee gave preliminary approval on 5 August to an Energy Administration Act amendment requiring large power users, data-centre operators among them, to install self-generation or storage for new facilities, with penalties of NT$150,000 to NT$750,000. The Taipei Times is the only source for this account1.
No threshold is fixed in the text. Which operators the duty reaches goes to later implementing regulation, so the committee has agreed the obligation while leaving the number that defines its scope to the executive. On an island whose grid runs on imported fuel and whose semiconductor industry already absorbs a large share of industrial demand, that number decides whether the amendment governs a handful of campuses or most new industrial connections.
Britain has taken the pricing route to the same problem, with Ofgem proposing a per-megawatt deposit on grid offers, where Taipei asks the user to build supply instead of paying for access to someone else's. The penalty range suggests the drafters expect compliance from the permitting stage rather than from enforcement after the fact. At the top of the range the fine is small against the cost of a data-centre build, which puts the weight on the construction consent, not on the fine.
