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With the huge demand to ship LNG Liquified Natural Gas. The price you pay for Nat gas heating will be going up, and all the coal fired boilers shit down were probably replaced by Nat gas boilers power plants.

SEIU? Worker-driven AFAIK.

Large unions tend to have large strike funds. The whole point of a general strike is disruption, so I guess they're OK with authoritarian fascism. 🤷

They put 'smart meters' in, where I live. My electric bill is now more than double what it was, when all 3 of my kids still lived at home 🤬

He thinks fair is where you go to get big hot dogs when he has to prepare to meet dick taters.

AI and data centers are essentially a Trojan horse, a scam promising everything but just another way for the rich to get richer on the backs of average citizens

And crypto mining.

Crypto mining and AI data centers are the environmental disasters of our age.

@papst-ny.bsky.social

I don't understand why those corporations shouldn't pay THEIR OWN DAMN bills.

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Power companies are going to have no customers left and only then be like, "ughh wait this isn't good either."

And rethuglicons allow it.

And fueling !

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Where is The People's firebrand? We need legislation mandating that all data centers pay for the production of their own electricity. Buy the solar panels and put them on your own building.

If power was a priority like it should be with this administration, there’s a number of things we could be doing to increase power supply but also lowering the costs & create new jobs. Instead we are doing nutty things like sending money to Argentina & gov shutdowns, & prepping for war in Venezuela.

They are killing themselves, but they don't believe it. We, the people, can only be pushed so far. Campout For Freedom April 20th York Nebraska. If no one can afford electricity, we might as well go camping. I am talking about an exodus 2.0. A national strike. A single camp. We walk away from them

Meanwhile, Australia is giving free power during the day as we have too much.

F MAGA!! ARTICLE II SECTION 4 this entire corrupt POS regime

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Yep, this should be the legal requirement to get a permission to open a data center. Win-win

Robert Reich is spot on with the problem bsky.app/profile/rbre...

that's the Trump economy for ya

If AI is so great and it’s gonna be so profitable why are we all subsidizing the power costs? Let the powerful pay more for power and let’s get this trickle down started.

Corporate subsidized tech giants living off welfare and residents get stuck with the bill .

Socialism!! Corporate Welfare!! Surely Fox News will call it out.

Another reason I went to solar for my power 12 years ago. Once the equipment paid for itself in the first year it's been free energy for 11 years now. Sure I have to replace the batteries every 4 years but the savings alone make it worth it. Installed and maintain the system myself.

Cut up your credit cards and start paying everything with hard cash/checks … it’s much easier to track how much money you are spending and to cut extravagant/unnecessary purchases. Stop buying premade food and eat homemade at home. Downsize if you must.

why are we paying for this? NJ summer bills were astronomical-like $600 more a month/July and they send us emails - save energy - it was hot - people are home all day and pets - can't live in 100 degrees inside - WHY ARE THESE COMPANIES NOT PAYING THEIR FAIR SARE? or do they & demand is just higher?

Why the sudden increase in need?

Water just doubled. It’s gonna be dark and dirty. Not my retirement funds.

Data centers just killed my local plant nursery. Meanwhile I can't get a decent grocery store in my community but they just built a fancy 'casino' on a trash pile for *reasons*. Fuck capitalism.

Can't read the article, but am I correct in thinking there is a connection between giant data centers and foisting the cost of building those energy hogs off on average users? And isn't a tech advance about to render those data centers obsolete?

deprivatize public utilities

And Trump is shutting down alternative sources of energy.

My city fees just went up 12%

Greed will kill us all, as intended. #GOPDeathCult

These silent monopolies need to be broken up. Our “co-op” is just that in name, and we are treated like crap when trying to talk with representatives. Our lines are forty years past their best and no plans to upgrade or bury them. It is a disaster waiting to happen. Profits should be put back in.

Look for carbon monoxide cases to rise.

And the solar tax credit phased out. Oil and gas companies own Trump.

Meanwhile, civilized nations are powering their data centers with renewable energy, because duh. observer.com/2025/11/icel...

WTF

Simple solution. Make utility boards charge AI Companies for the cost of new infrastructure that they require. Not the average consumer.

You mean like what Trump is trying to do in super corrupt ways?

Seems like the American way now.

Data centers should pay a much higher rate. That increase should not be distributed amongst all customers.

lol, good.

My electric company, PGE fights people trying to install solar. They make it a difficult process on purpose. Especially commercial solar projects. Why? Because they don’t make as much. They can sell whatever you produce onto the grid but not enough I guess. Then they beg us to save energy. 🙄 over it

25% New Jersey !!

This enrages me

Trillionaire Corporations are building hundreds of energy-hungry data centres, and sucking the well dry, contributing Nothing

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📢 ALL AI data centers and other giant commercial users of electricity must be made by law to build their own solar farms, etc. and produce their own electricity. WE shouldn't have to pay THEIR electric bill and also pay their high prices. NO more welfare for billionaires!

Very interesting

It's a CON JOB of course. After decades of fracking there is plenty of gas to fuel power plants. But tech bro data centers are sucking the life right out of Americans in many ways.

I fear what data all these centers are going to hold.

Just in time for freezing temperatures too! People are starving and now freezing to death, not because there’s no food or power, but because of corporate greed. People going to die watching greedy fat billionaires swimming in the elements that are would have saved their lives.

This is inherent in the parasitic financier economy. The tyranny of compound interest - their need to maintain compounding growth on their trillions - compels it. Only a laborist movement supported by united union leadership can stop it. laboristmovement.substack.com/p/the-harm-t...

I worked in transmission. Protective relays and communication. Lots of cyber.

I feel it.

I think all these AI / data centers should be charged 150% of the going electrical rate.

Every day Americans are paying the electric bill for data centers.

And to top it all off, these data centers threaten to eliminate a lot of jobs.

America, if you bills are going up, please don't forget to thank dump and his magats in congress, it was part of there bi ugly bill.

We need congress to pass a permitting reform bill. 95% of the energy projects waiting to connect to the grid are clean energy.

SEIU……maybe you should pay more attention to what’s going on. Thanks to the politicians YOU supported, ALL of our costs have skyrocketed and YOU never complained until now. How about an apology at least. SEIU…..YOU built this TRUMP is fixing it. Now either help or get out the way.

Thank God for TRUMP

No citizen should go without water or power. The state needs to pay. Utilities are not for profit

We’re so back

Meanwhile in Florida, energy bills just got the biggest hike in history, which has got to hurt way too many people. But, isn't there always a but, Duke Energy has to drop energy bills in March 2026. It's like a special sale, dramatically raise prices then drop to lower level so it looks cheaper.

This is all on the local government for not requiring primarily off grid renewable energy and water recycling for those data centers.

So what happens when they have no customers?

Big rebellion of Americans is just around the corner.

I’m asking my elected’s in Michigan the same question. They want our water

Why are these “corporations” on their own power grid ?

trump said he was cutting energy costs in half within a year. He’s got less than two months.

Here’s the link to voice our concerns in Colorado (towards the bottom of the article) www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new...

I think these data centers are a growing disaster re: energy use, water use, land use, noise, and more.

Over 11% in Seattle. Went up last year, and this year, and again next year.

It should be illegal to shut off power to anyone.

Bitcoin to be exact

Don't forget the water they suck up, top! Aquifers are going to go dry!

The do nothing Union. Make CA live up to their contracts.

As it beautifully says in the novel: “You can't pay rent with yesterday, but at least tomorrow offers a chance for deferment”

More reason to DIY vertical wind generators and/or solar panels (& whole system) and get Rid of the Grid. A monkey could do it IMO.

Why aren't bills apportioned appropriately?

Another example of the billionaires being subsidized on the backs of the rest of us.

More winning

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Capitalism for thee, socialism for me.

Unfortunately the cost of energy is not done skyrocketing yet. It’s going up 34% in my state alone. Black stone is well on its way to purchasing PNM for 11.5 Billion. When my 86 year old dad asked who Black stone was, I replied with, “satan”. He just nodded and went about his day.

Don’t worry King Trump says he fixed it !😂

I did not even think of the water usage! 🤦‍♂️

they're not even profitable, is the thing

The bubble deserves to burst. Sucks for the rest of us.

If they want to build around me then make them pay their share and not some ridiculous subsidized rate 1/3 of what we pay.

Yes, data centers in GA are paying ~.05c a kWh while residential customers are paying just under .15c a kWh. Residential customers are subsidizing the data centers. Incredible but here we are.

That’s the saying: Risk is socialized. Profits are privatized.

Couple hundred years ago this kind of shit would have resulted in torches and pitchforks and at least one new tree ornament by the end of the night, just saying

Curious: How & where is SEIU lobbying local, state or regional power commissions - the entities that set rates, the amount of guaranteed profits & determines which class of ratepayer(s) pays amortized capital expenses?

R U surprised?

AI Data Centers should generate their own electricity instead of stealing from the country.

Please see reply on original post - Mark

Will repost to make others “aware “ of what is going on - thank you for the info - Mark

Same old same old

Yea, that's BS. They get us coming and going and during. Greedy.

Greatest system in the world. America, the greatest, most amazing country ever created in human history. Just like they told us.

Nationalize all power generation and delivery methods, and tax data centers fairly. Regulate AI, period. This Wild, Wild West approach leads to Westworld.

And no public backlash so they have nothing to fear.

This is how rich people make amerika great again!

Time to DIY solar or wind some stuff