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In some alternate universe, the AI companies could have used some of their billions to subsidize consumer accounts, or something, rather than just let 'supply and demand' raise the rates for all the people that they needed to not vote against them. why should anyone not directly benefitting from AI be charged more for their monthly keeping the lights on bill? The short-sightedness of the powerful never ceases to amaze me.

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> In some alternate universe, the AI companies could have used some of their billions to subsidize consumer accounts, or something,

The "or something" should have been building out power generation and feeding back a fraction of that into the grid. At least then the electricity costs can drop for the locals.

If they proposed a data centre that has it's own power generation, and fed 20% of the electricity back into the grid, there'd be less opposition.

Build power generation with what? Gas turbines accelerating global warming? Nuclear that will come online in 20 years?

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