In an objective vacuum, the notion of improving and expanding our electric grid and building new power plants sounds great – it is essentially accepted that we need more electric power to meet growing demand, driven by data center growth. The inherent problem with that, however, is that someone must pay for that investment, and more often than not, that means power consumers are paying for new transmission lines and generation power plants while they are being built, and thus before they can provide any benefit to those same consumers. As pointed out in a recent Reuters article, “[m]illions of Americans are . . ...
"One Big Reason Why Consumer Power Costs Keep Going Up"
Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC, May 2026