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8 days agoThey’re not paying for additive demand. If grid updates or plant expansions cost $1b then that’s distributed across all customers equally based on their consumption. So let’s say there’s 1m customers and the utility spread the costs over 10 years… $100 more per customer assuming equal consumption across.
Schiff is proposing the data center itself is saddled with the $1b and all other customers bills are held flat.
They do it in a way where there are much smaller districts. Then the realities of slightly skewed districts offset on the balance… And you also have multiple parties.
The parties in the US draw them to pre-decide outcomes