"A ginormous money pump extracting billions from American families through their electric bills." Senator Whitehouse on why blocking cheap clean energy isn't an accident — it forces grids onto pricier fossil units, and the priciest unit sets the price for every electron. You pay the gap.

Google offered to pay outright for the data center infrastructure upgrades. The utility said no, because that would keep it out of the rate base, and pushed for a prepayment structure instead so they could still rate base it.⁣ ⁣ Result: everyone's bill went up $5.77 a month.