Extracting Profits from the Public: How Utility Ratepayers Are Paying for Big Tech’s Power

A new paper from Harvard’s Electricity Law Initiative reveals how utility customers are unknowingly helping to subsidize the energy costs of Big Tech’s expanding data centers. The report explains how utilities use existing rate structures—and sometimes secret contracts—to shift infrastructure costs onto the public. With little transparency and limited regulatory checks, the authors warn that ratepayers are being forced to bankroll corporate profits while affordability and fairness take a back seat.

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