Emily Kwong

Oh, wow.

My guess is it's people like us, Dan, people who pay our utility bill.

Today on the show, what's coming to light about how utility customers like you and I are footing the bill to bring data centers online?

I'm Emily Kwong.

Okay, Dan, let's back up a little bit with Mike here.

When did he start investigating data centers?

Right.

So we can charge our electric cars, cook our food, and it's power lines that's ultimately carrying that energy where it needs to go.

I'm picturing him like with his mind map, data center, data center.

How many data centers, as far as he could tell, is Dominion planning to power?

$4 billion.

Wow, that is a lot.

So a fleet of data centers is under construction, fueled by the ambitions of tech companies like OpenAI and, of course, the Trump administration's support for AI.

So, Dan, can you describe what one of these data center construction projects looks like?

Dan, is this power line just for one data center?

How exactly does Dominion get itself into a position where it can charge customers for this?

Right.

When I covered local government, I saw this up close.

Like the local government regulators, they set the rates that companies like Dominion are allowed to charge.

Because the system is kind of set up this way.