Powering data centers needs less bureaucracy, more freedom

“Keeping North Carolina’s power grid reliable and shielding ratepayers from rising costs, while still enabling data centers and other large-load industrial customers to meet their power needs is a challenge for policymakers. Fortunately, they don’t have to solve everything. They merely need to give the private sector the freedom to “build, bring, or buy” from systems off the grid. Consumer-Regulated Electricity (CRE) would grant this freedom and, in so doing, open the way for innovation in electricity provision while not harming the reliability or cost of the power grid.”

https://www.johnlocke.org/powering-data-centers-needs-less-bureaucracy-more-freedom/