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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]The Data centers are being subsidized by average retail rate payers. [/quote]

Not true.  In fact, the opposite is.[/quote]

[quote] 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[/quote]
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![/quote]

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

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

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.[/quote]

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. [/quote]

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