Future generations? Just keep that national debt going up!

If it really grows that much and households then consume a small fraction of the generated electricity, it would be easy to tax the electricity generated for AI and just make it free for household consumers.

Not at all. Corporate earnings have been strong entirely disregarding the AI bubble.

We will likely look back and see that much of the misguided AI investment was a headwind rather than a tailwind to things like EPS growth.

Georgia has this.

UK utilities and a lot of others have regressive rates: you pay a standing charge per day, so low users pay proportionally more per unit consumed.

Most Indian discoms (power distribution companies) have progressive slab rates for households.

Texas has all sorts of options. Most power usage here is structured where individuals can select which Retail Electric Provider (REP) to use. They essentially wholesale energy from the grid. I had the (dis)pleasure of searching for a new contract after ours expired so have a refreshed memory of options: - flat rates

- discounted for more or less spend

- credits issued at X usage (which is only good at X specifically because its generally an expensive rate but it’s a marketing ploy for filter based searches).

- free or discounted night time or weekends

- etc.

If you can imagine they charge a certain way, there is likely someone trying it.