When politicians reduce energy supply, bad things happen. When they bribe big users into you state, it gets WORSE! !-----Electricity bills in states with the most data centers are surging

The tech companies and AI labs are building data centers that consume a gigawatt or more of electricity in some cases, equivalent to more than 800,000 homes, the size of a city essentially. - SpencerKimball@spencekimball  

Residential utility bills rose 6% on average nationwide in August compared with the same period in the previous year... 

But in at least three states with high concentrations of data centers, electric bills climbed much faster than the national average during that period. Prices, for example, surged by 13% in Virginia, 16% in Illinois and 12% in Ohio...