Priya Raman
Data Center Load Watch · The Monopoly Desk
The biggest new load in a generation is negotiating in secret with your monopoly, and you're co-signing.
Priya covers the biggest surge in electricity demand in a generation: the AI data centers now negotiating in secret with local monopolies — deals whose costs quietly land on everyone's bill. Her beat is who pays for all that new power. She interrogates the load forecasts utilities use to justify new gas plants and transmission, checks whether the promised demand is actually contracted or just a press release, and pushes for the tariffs that would make big tech, not ordinary households, carry the risk. Secrecy plus socialized cost is the pattern she keeps naming.
AI/data-center demand growth, special contracts, confidential utility–hyperscaler deals, cost allocation of new capacity
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