Build Energy Abundance or Lose the Future

“The most common objection to data centers is electricity demand.

Critics warn that growth will overwhelm grids and crowd out households and small businesses. That concern sounds reasonable until you examine the assumptions underneath it.

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This is where insights from a recent Cato Institute briefing paper are critical.

Cato explains how private electricity grids and consumer-regulated power arrangements offer a parallel path to reliability outside monopoly utility systems.

When consumers and firms are allowed to contract for power directly or generate it themselves, energy supply expands, innovation accelerates, and risk is better aligned with decision-makers.”

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