Energy bills in US have increased 13% since Trump took office

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Anonymous wrote:

The Data centers are being subsidized by average retail rate payers.

Not true. In fact, the opposite is.

ATLANTA, Georgia — An hour before hearing testimony from the public and advocacy groups, the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) posted a settlement agreement approving Georgia Power’s plan to build the most expensive gas plants in the country, leaving Georgians to foot the bill.

The settlement, which the PSC is expected to vote on during its Dec. 19 meeting, approves Georgia Power’s “Requests for Proposals,” or RFP, despite clear warnings from the Sierra Club, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, and PSC’s own staff that Georgia Power’s plan hinges on a data center bubble. The utility’s proposal is expected to cost at least $15 billion in capital costs, though the total costs have yet to be publicly disclosed. The proposed settlement would dramatically increase Georgian’s energy bills for years to come for data centers that might not even be built. Several counties in Georgia have already passed moratoriums on data centers, awaiting more insight into their potential impact on local communities

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/12/11/georgias-utility-regulator-rushes-deal-for-georgia-power-before-public-hearing/#google_vignette

More billionaires who do not pay taxes making the residents pay for their toys. Thank republicans!

Wow, that is the state of Georgia making a foolhearted mistake in investing in natural gas like that.

[Anonymous]

The cost of electricity (and groceries) is up but meanwhile at Mar-a-Lago...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

The Data centers are being subsidized by average retail rate payers.

Not true. In fact, the opposite is.

ATLANTA, Georgia — An hour before hearing testimony from the public and advocacy groups, the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) posted a settlement agreement approving Georgia Power’s plan to build the most expensive gas plants in the country, leaving Georgians to foot the bill.

The settlement, which the PSC is expected to vote on during its Dec. 19 meeting, approves Georgia Power’s “Requests for Proposals,” or RFP, despite clear warnings from the Sierra Club, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, and PSC’s own staff that Georgia Power’s plan hinges on a data center bubble. The utility’s proposal is expected to cost at least $15 billion in capital costs, though the total costs have yet to be publicly disclosed. The proposed settlement would dramatically increase Georgian’s energy bills for years to come for data centers that might not even be built. Several counties in Georgia have already passed moratoriums on data centers, awaiting more insight into their potential impact on local communities

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/12/11/georgias-utility-regulator-rushes-deal-for-georgia-power-before-public-hearing/#google_vignette

More billionaires who do not pay taxes making the residents pay for their toys. Thank republicans!

Wow, that is the state of Georgia making a foolhearted mistake in investing in natural gas like that.

If the data center boom is a bubble then prices will come down due to excess supply. If it's not a bubble then prices will not rise as much because there's extra capacity

Increasing electric generation is something most of th country needs. Regardless of data centers, we don't have enough capacity to keep up with the demand that comes with electrifying everything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It won't go back any time soon. The Data centers are being subsidized by average retail rate payers.

Why is this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It won't go back any time soon. The Data centers are being subsidized by average retail rate payers.

Why is this?

Why are retail rate payers subsidizing billionaires? Because the billionaires stacked the political decks including public service commission seats to make it that way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

The Data centers are being subsidized by average retail rate payers.

Not true. In fact, the opposite is.

ATLANTA, Georgia — An hour before hearing testimony from the public and advocacy groups, the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) posted a settlement agreement approving Georgia Power’s plan to build the most expensive gas plants in the country, leaving Georgians to foot the bill.

The settlement, which the PSC is expected to vote on during its Dec. 19 meeting, approves Georgia Power’s “Requests for Proposals,” or RFP, despite clear warnings from the Sierra Club, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, and PSC’s own staff that Georgia Power’s plan hinges on a data center bubble. The utility’s proposal is expected to cost at least $15 billion in capital costs, though the total costs have yet to be publicly disclosed. The proposed settlement would dramatically increase Georgian’s energy bills for years to come for data centers that might not even be built. Several counties in Georgia have already passed moratoriums on data centers, awaiting more insight into their potential impact on local communities

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/12/11/georgias-utility-regulator-rushes-deal-for-georgia-power-before-public-hearing/#google_vignette

More billionaires who do not pay taxes making the residents pay for their toys. Thank republicans!

Wow, that is the state of Georgia making a foolhearted mistake in investing in natural gas like that.

If the data center boom is a bubble then prices will come down due to excess supply. If it's not a bubble then prices will not rise as much because there's extra capacity

Increasing electric generation is something most of th country needs. Regardless of data centers, we don't have enough capacity to keep up with the demand that comes with electrifying everything.

No this is not how it works. The once you build the power plant you have to pay it off, pay the employees, maintenance,, fuel (long term contracts with large natural gas pipelines to the plant), etc. All these cost are spread over the existing customer base with residual paying up to twice as much as commercial users. The highest electricity cost in the US are in areas that use more NG plants to generate electricity.

Natural Gas is very expensive to run because the price of fuel is high. NG plants now take 6-8 years to build because equipment delivery(gas turbines backlog). By the time it is build the bubble will have popped leaving everyone in Georgia with a 15 billion asset that is not used.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

The Data centers are being subsidized by average retail rate payers.

Not true. In fact, the opposite is.

ATLANTA, Georgia — An hour before hearing testimony from the public and advocacy groups, the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) posted a settlement agreement approving Georgia Power’s plan to build the most expensive gas plants in the country, leaving Georgians to foot the bill.

The settlement, which the PSC is expected to vote on during its Dec. 19 meeting, approves Georgia Power’s “Requests for Proposals,” or RFP, despite clear warnings from the Sierra Club, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, and PSC’s own staff that Georgia Power’s plan hinges on a data center bubble. The utility’s proposal is expected to cost at least $15 billion in capital costs, though the total costs have yet to be publicly disclosed. The proposed settlement would dramatically increase Georgian’s energy bills for years to come for data centers that might not even be built. Several counties in Georgia have already passed moratoriums on data centers, awaiting more insight into their potential impact on local communities

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/12/11/georgias-utility-regulator-rushes-deal-for-georgia-power-before-public-hearing/#google_vignette

More billionaires who do not pay taxes making the residents pay for their toys. Thank republicans!

Wow, that is the state of Georgia making a foolhearted mistake in investing in natural gas like that.

If the data center boom is a bubble then prices will come down due to excess supply. If it's not a bubble then prices will not rise as much because there's extra capacity

Increasing electric generation is something most of th country needs. Regardless of data centers, we don't have enough capacity to keep up with the demand that comes with electrifying everything.

investing heavily in a brand new natural gas facility that will harm the immediate environment for a century when there are viable alternatives is the issue.

[Anonymous]

But that can't be right.. Trump said if gas prices went down, everything would go down.

This is fake news, a Dem hoax. Trump gets A++++++ for economy.

/s

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

The Data centers are being subsidized by average retail rate payers.

Not true. In fact, the opposite is.

ATLANTA, Georgia — An hour before hearing testimony from the public and advocacy groups, the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) posted a settlement agreement approving Georgia Power’s plan to build the most expensive gas plants in the country, leaving Georgians to foot the bill.

The settlement, which the PSC is expected to vote on during its Dec. 19 meeting, approves Georgia Power’s “Requests for Proposals,” or RFP, despite clear warnings from the Sierra Club, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, and PSC’s own staff that Georgia Power’s plan hinges on a data center bubble. The utility’s proposal is expected to cost at least $15 billion in capital costs, though the total costs have yet to be publicly disclosed. The proposed settlement would dramatically increase Georgian’s energy bills for years to come for data centers that might not even be built. Several counties in Georgia have already passed moratoriums on data centers, awaiting more insight into their potential impact on local communities

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/12/11/georgias-utility-regulator-rushes-deal-for-georgia-power-before-public-hearing/#google_vignette

More billionaires who do not pay taxes making the residents pay for their toys. Thank republicans!

Wow, that is the state of Georgia making a foolhearted mistake in investing in natural gas like that.

If you want high electricity cost invest in nuclear and natural gas.

[Anonymous]

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The report pointed to the massive spending bill Trump signed in July, which it claims is "driving up utility costs and destroying jobs by removing cheaper, cleaner energy sources from the grid, all while funding new tax breaks for the oil and gas industries."
Projects that were canceled or delayed since Trump’s election have led to a loss of 24,958.5 megawatts of planned energy generation, which could have powered more than 13.17 million homes, according to the report.

Prices are expected to spike even further, especially as rising energy demands are driven by data centers and extreme heat, the study said.
…
What’s happening behind the scenes is the Trump Administration is doing everything it can to squash clean energy," Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., said Thursday during a media briefing. "Clean energy is almost always low-cost."
More than 165,000 jobs in the clean energy sector have been lost or stalled as a result of Trump's policies, according to the Climate Power report.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/energy-bills-us-increased-13-trump-office-new/story?id=128346091

Hope this does not continue but it looks like it will. Between the data centers and Trump killing the cheapest and fastest way to meet demand means residential power users will see their rates increase hugely.

If those conservatives could count, they'd be very upset.

[Anonymous]

Republicans- All the little people have to paid for billionaires to make AI. So the AI can take our jobs?