A utility megadeal is being framed as a 20% rate hike to underwrite more AI data centers.

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NextEra, owner of FPL, is buying Dominion for $66.8 bil. They’ll raise your utility rates by 20% to fund more AI data centers.

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Analyst rationale

If households pay for model-training load on the grid, AI risk is no longer only a lab or platform problem — it is a household energy-cost and civic-oversight problem.