[oliwarner]

But you've just killed domestic manufacturing and any retail balancing on fine margins.

The only way to remove additional grid demand (and therefore cost) is to simultaneously flood the supply. The DCs should absolutely pay for that.

[dangus]

That’s fine with me, the government can just mandate utility capacity build-out.

These are monopoly businesses where the government has full control over the policy of their operation.

I would generally make the argument that data centers aren’t any different than manufacturing or retail businesses. Their demand should be considered equal in terms of priority - the government shouldn’t be artificially choosing industry preferences unless it has very good reason.

Either you’re a business and you pay the business price or you’re an individual and you pay the individual price.