Why aren't the data centers footing the bill? If they want to suddenly spawn GW of load out of thin air then they can pay for the needed infrastructure without pushing that burden to other customers. Power companies have demand metering which offsets the cost of ensuring there is capacity available for commercial and industrial customer loads. Something similar should be levied against large single point of use customers like this.

The map in this article just shows density of data centers in each state. They do cite this [newsweek article](https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-electricity-costs-in-ever...) which does include a table that shows residential electricity cost changes by state.

Crap article. Why is it filled with LLM-isms?

- "The state-level numbers make that abstract claim concrete"

- "That’s not a market failure. That’s a policy choice."

And the map doesn't seem to link with the information in the article, and states like Hawaii don't link up at all with the points made. Very little data to back it up too, and instead it's linking to its own site. One weird example is when Microsoft is mentioned in regard to covering its own costs, but the link goes to an article about a protest at a Microsoft data center and has nothing to do with the pledge.

A brief skim of a few other articles on the site have similar issues. Is there a way to ignore or down-vote an entire domain?