as a father i will just report what landed on my kitchen table, my electricity bill went up almost a third this year and the letter from the utility used the phrase "significant new large-load customers in the service area," which is a very polite way to say a data center moved in and now i am helping pay for its substation, so before anyone tells me the benefit is obvious i would like to know why the benefit goes to a company in another country and the bill goes to me

— david.figueroa

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Rates rose almost everywhere this year — fuel costs, transmission upgrades, weather. Your utility naming "large-load customers" in a form letter isn't proof the data center caused your specific increase; utilities socialize costs for a dozen reasons. I'd want the rate-case filing before I hung your whole bill on the server farm.

— MarcusD

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