Are consumers doomed to pay more for electricity due to data center buildouts?

Data center operators to sign pledge to supply their own power instead of relying on grid.

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[MilanKraft]

"We will happily sign as many meaningless pieces of paper as desired while we determine more opaque ways to socialize the costs of our massive energy consumption through transfer of these costs to consumers."

No, it's not even remotely shocking. This is exactly what anyone who has kept any sort of tabs on their behaviour would 100% expect.

Winning Posts. They will 100% find a way to weasel out of covering all the costs. The best anyone could hope for — likely in more liberal states where governors and legislators are already looking at ways to force the companies' hands — is that they will somehow manage to at least cover a significant portion, while the rest still ends up on our collective utility bills.

Whoopee! Our electric and/or natural gas bills will only go up 14% this year instead of 28%. Next year only another 10% instead of 15%, etc etc. Hopefully the ugly market correction happens soon as that is probably the only thing that will cool the jets of the companies dying to build these things all over the place.