> American Electric Power, which owns the line, has proposed a new, higher electricity rate for data centers and cryptocurrency miners that would lock them in as customers for a decade. The companies are balking.

Look at that! Net Neutrality comes to the electrical wire. They could have charged different rates based on industrial/residential or volume but that wouldn't be optimal rent extraction.

This is actually a really great article about the weird contract dynamics of large power customers and the chicken-egg problem of needing commitment for a certain amount of guaranteed spend to justify the cost of servicing them. It has nothing at all to do about AI.