Ann Vaughan

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The MeatEater Podcast · Ep. 902: The Pros, Cons, and Complications of Data Centers · 13 Jul 2026 podcast

Yeah.

Yes.

Yeah.

And like the utility industry really needed somebody to wake it up, you know, or to push it because they are not incentivized to, utilities have this perverse way of getting paid.

It's just, it's an incentive that got put in when we created monopoly utilities in the dawn of the electric age and they make more money by spending.

Basically, they go to a utility commission and say, uh, we need power for reliability purposes.

I want to build a new thing, a new power plant, a new line, a new... And, um, they get a guaranteed rate of return if it is approved, um, to compensate them for, you know, the capital that is needed for that.

And so we all pay that.

We all pay the cost of what it was to build plus an added rate of return.

And sometimes, uh,

you could argue that they didn't need to build that brand new thing.

They should learn how to use what we've got.

And so the tech industry is looking, they're in such a hurry and they've realized there are certain inefficiencies in the way the system is built.

And they have the money and the motivation to shake up the system and say, well, hang on.

Yes, I will, if I don't,

to pay my full share on all this new infrastructure.

I know I will not have the social license to build, and I will be vilified.

But at the same time, this, let me fund, you know, these pilot projects, or let me add these sensors to lines, because we could be determining how far we could push this.

And I'm also willing to spend my own money to put batteries behind the meter and other systems.

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