Chris Nelder 🤘 on Nostr: Data center power demand doesn't just materialize out of nowhere. It's invited, often ...

Data center power demand doesn't just materialize out of nowhere. It's invited, often by local officials looking to increase tax revenues. If VA is looking at a 35% load increase from data centers https://dmv.community/@pixelpusher220/112641931156098319 then their utility customers ought to be demanding that their regulators make sure those costs are paid *by the data center owners* and not by all ratepayers. As we discussed at length in the current episode of Energy Transition Show (npub1ass…xqkk): https://xenetwork.org/ets/episodes/episode-226-load-growth-shenanigans/