Speed to Power: How Electricity Ratepayers Can Win the AI Race
“Thinking Outside the Grid: The Consumer Regulated Electricity Alternative
Key Points
Policymakers should come to terms with this stark reality: meeting the demands of the data center era requires thinking outside the legacy grid.
Consumer Regulated Electricity would allow privately financed, physically islanded electric utilities to serve new, voluntary customers such as data centers or industrial facilities.
Instead of competing through subsidies or narrow tax provisions, states can allow private infrastructure to form freely, letting developers finance, build, and operate their own islanded power systems without drawing on public funds.”
