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> exhaust generated by 30+ gas generators

The utility monopolies are partly/mostly to blame for this. Their rates have become so disconnected from reality that it's cheaper to install your own power generation. They've all been posting record profits, up 50% where I am, in the last 5 years, as rates continue to increase.

I'm sure the utility companies are ecstatic how the blame as been put squarely on data centers.

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Maybe utility power is more expensive because it has to pay for pollution mitigation?

Maybe they shouldn't be profiting so heavily if that's the case?

But yes, they say it's green energy requirements/expansion. But, they're also very good at making excuses, including when they're old equipment erases whole towns due to fires they started, from leaving it all unmaintained to help with those record profits.

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