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Democrats just won control of Georgia Power’s regulator for the first time in 30 years — and its OpenAI data center contract was entirely redacted (fortune.com)
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[–] 55 points 4 hours ago (6 children)

Jesus Christ.

Every person who enabled this corruption and the price gouging of energy for Georgia's consumers should be looking at a decades-long prison sentence.

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  • [–] 21 points 4 hours ago (5 children)

    So, I live in Georgia & I'm happy to see Dems on the PSC, but electricity here is 8 cents per kWh. There were some big cost overruns adding nuclear reactors to Vogtle, but them and Watts Bar are the only people to add nuclear since 1990. Relative to a lot of other states, it's hard to argue Georgians are being gouged.

    And I really would like to know what's in the data center deals, especially what happens when the data center goes tits-up 3 years into the life of a 40-year power plant

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  • [–] 14 points 3 hours ago (1 child)

    I was reading this first, then I saw your 8c/kWh.

    according to data from U.S. Energy Information Administration, which shows Georgia’s rate at exactly 15 cents per kilowatt-hour as of May 2025.

    Nationally, average residential rates range from 17 to 17.5 cents per kilowatt-hour, placing Georgia 22nd among U.S. states for electricity costs — a position that makes it moderately priced compared to the rest of the country.

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