Amazon and Microsoft Are Siding With Ratepayers Against Utilities on Data Center Power Bills
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The Information reports hyperscalers positioning themselves with consumers rather than utilities in the fight over who pays for grid buildout, after PJM's July capacity auction was projected to add $6.3 billion to household bills through 2029. The alignment is tactical: the cloud providers want the cost attributed to generation policy rather than to their own load growth. It is the first sign the compute buildout's political cost is being actively managed rather than absorbed.