Okay, so public service Commission recently forced We Energies to make tech companies pay 100% of the generation costs for their data centers, rejecting a corporate handout that would have forced residential ratepayers to subsidize 25% of those costs. Yet We Energies is still trying to bypass this ruling by filing a separate rate case to jack up residential utility rates by over 9%. How will you prevent utilities from using data centers as a pretext to squeeze working families? Well, we have to make sure the Public Service Commission has statutes in place that actually give them enforcement mechanisms to reject rate hikes. (35:34–35:44)
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Asserts that We Energies is attempting to increase residential utility rates by over 9% through a separate rate case.
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