NIPSCO to Deliver $57.5 Million in Savings to Electric Customers From Data Center Development

Large-load customers will fund the infrastructure needed to serve them under the previously announced agreements.

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10/28/2026 - 05:01 PM EDT

Average residential electric customer expected to receive approximately $90 total, or about $5 per month for 18 months
New credit builds on $1.75 billion in previously announced NIPSCO electric customer credits

MERRILLVILLE, Ind.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- NiSource Inc. (NYSE: NI) today announced that it will deliver $57.5 million in savings to its existing electric customers generated through data center development. Subject to regulatory approval, the average residential electric customer is expected to receive a monthly bill credit of approximately $5 for 18 months, beginning approximately 30 days after approval.

The credit is an expansion of the value being driven through our NiSource GenCo model and is an early example of how the region’s growth can create meaningful benefits for existing NIPSCO electric customers.

The new credit builds on $1.75 billion in customer credits expected from previously announced agreements with Amazon, Alphabet and Microsoft. Under those agreements, large-load customers will fund the infrastructure needed to serve them, while a portion of the revenues generated through their contracts will be returned directly to existing NIPSCO electric customers. Electric customers can expect the first of these credits to begin in the first quarter of 2027 and ramp up over time.

“When our region grows, our customers share in the benefits,” said Vince Parisi, NIPSCO President and Chief Operating Officer. “Putting the value from data center development directly back on customers’ bills is one more way we’re turning growth into real savings for families across northern Indiana.”

Visit NIPSCO.com to learn more about NIPSCO’s efforts to support customer affordability.

About NiSource

NiSource Inc. (NYSE: NI) is one of the largest fully-regulated utility companies in the United States, serving approximately 3.3 million natural gas customers and 500,000 electric customers across six states through its local Columbia Gas and NIPSCO brands. The mission of our approximately 7,700 employees is to deliver safe, reliable energy that drives value to our customers. NiSource is a member of the Dow Jones Sustainability - North America Index and is on Forbes lists of America’s Best Employers for Women and Diversity. Learn more about NiSource’s record of leadership in sustainability, investments in the communities it serves and how we live our vision to be an innovative and trusted energy partner at www.NiSource.com.

The content of our website is not incorporated by reference into this document or any other report or document NiSource files with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”).

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Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in any forward-looking statement discussed in this Press Release include, among other things: our ability to execute our business plan or growth strategy, including utility infrastructure investments, or business opportunities; our ability to manage data center growth in our service territories; potential incidents and other operating risks associated with our business; our ability to work successfully with our JV partners; our ability to construct, develop and place into service the generation and transmission assets we develop to support our current and any future data center customers on time or at all and consistent with initial cost estimates, as well as the performance of such assets once constructed and placed into service; our ability to obtain the significant additional financing required to construct such generation and transmission assets we develop to support our current and any future data center contracts on favorable terms, if at all; our ability to recover our investments and realize our expected return under our current and any future data center contracts that we enter into; our ability to maintain our investment grade credit ratings as we finance and pursue our data center strategy, including our performance under our current and any future data center contracts that we enter into; performance by our customers under our current and any future data center contracts; any default by a current or future data center customer or any decision by a current or future data center customer, if applicable, to reduce the committed capacity under, or to terminate, such contracts; potential changes in the MISO accreditation treatment of capacity resources; our ability to adapt to, and manage costs related to, advances in technology, including alternative energy sources and changes in related laws and regulations; our increased dependency on technology; impacts related to our aging infrastructure; our ability to obtain sufficient insurance coverage and whether such coverage will protect us against significant losses; the success of our electric generation strategy; construction risks and supply risks; fluctuations in demand from residential and commercial customers; fluctuations in the price of energy commodities and related transportation costs or an inability to obtain an adequate, reliable and cost-effective fuel supply to meet customer demand; our ability to attract, retain or re-skill a qualified workforce and maintain good labor relations; our ability to manage new initiatives and organizational changes; the performance and quality of third-party suppliers and service providers; our ability to manage the financial and operational risks related to achieving our carbon emission reduction goals, including our Net Zero Goal, including any future associated impact from business opportunities such as data center development as those opportunities evolve; regulation and the impact of regulatory rate reviews; our ability to obtain expected financial or regulatory outcomes; any damage to our reputation; the impacts of natural disasters, acts of terrorism, acts of war or other catastrophic events; the physical impacts of climate change and the transition to a lower carbon future; potential cybersecurity attacks or security breaches; increased requirements and costs related to cybersecurity; our debt obligations; any changes to our credit ratings or the credit ratings of certain of our subsidiaries; adverse economic and capital market conditions, including increases in inflation or interest rates, recession, or changes in investor sentiment; the actions of activist stockholders; economic conditions in certain industries; the ability of customers and suppliers to fulfill their payment and contractual obligations; the ability of our subsidiaries to generate cash; pension funding obligations; potential impairments of goodwill; the outcome of legal and regulatory proceedings, investigations, incidents, claims and litigation; compliance with changes in, or new interpretations of applicable laws, regulations and tariffs; the cost of compliance with environmental laws and regulations and the costs of associated liabilities; changes in tax laws or the interpretation thereof; and other matters set forth in Item 1, "Business," Item 1A, "Risk Factors" and Part II, Item 7, "Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations," of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025 and matters set forth in our subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, some of which risks are beyond our control. In addition, the relative contributions to profitability by each business segment, and the assumptions underlying the forward-looking statements relating thereto, may change over time.

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