Bribes.

most of the states, govorners have been bribed, whitmer, mills,,etc. the gop are all on board.

I mean, they kinda of have to. I don't know that any data centers are running at a profit yet and that's even after they've switched to usage pricing; with the increased burn rate there's no way they can't raises price sooner rather than later.

ETA: but make no mistake, they will do anything they can to just make multiple smaller data centers that stay under the 20MW bend point. Maybe the economics will make sense, maybe it won't. Hopefully the 20MW and 30% figures involved some math by a bean counter to conclude the economics won't make sense.

We're not perfect here, but we do make some good choices!

Same, we drop the ball at times but overall I like where we're headed.

I was thinking that this sounds good at face value, but it could easily just be a throwaway publicity stunt.

Let's just make up a scenario, purely for illustrative purposes. Say our baseline is in 2022, customers paid ~100 a month in electricity. Then over the years, data centres came along, they struck deals, and individual consumers electricity bills went up to 200, which we are at today.

Then, NicePowerCompanyLLC decides to hike the prices for the datacentres by 30%, and reduce the prices by 1.3% for the residentials. That's still 98.7% higher than the baseline before the datacentres. That's to say, they data centres are still having their costs subsidized by regular people.

Ergo, if the prices already got hiked because of the datacentres, this tiny concession is a piss in the ocean. It's just a publicity stunt to make themselves look better while people are still buckling under the exploitation of having to carry billion dollar industries on their backs, with no real benefit to themselves.

is the right direction but still far from the way it should be

I hear the waitlist on jet turbines is 2+ years....

The environmental regulation already exists. It's just not enforced.

Because federal agencies are captured by special interests and gutted.

Won't someone think of the shareholders?!

How can you selectively all caps some words like that and not have your eye twitch?

Most do. Some even trade sort of electricity contracts to earn money. It is a wierd buisness.

There are dozens that have their new energy infrastructure costs and even their power usage shared among all the residents of that utility district. They're hard to find out about because the contracts are often secretive -- can't imagine why -- but this was going on for a while before people started to put up a stink about data centers.

This is a good article from about a year ago, and Benn Jordan has also talked about it on his channel, among others.