Subject: Electricity rate payers are subsidizing AI
Apparently we pay for the infrastructure for AI's electricity use, but we can't subsidize wind and solar generation.

https://www.npr.org/2025/12/03...

Electricity bills are on track to rise an average of 8 percent nationwide by 2030 according to a June analysis from Carnegie Mellon University and North Carolina State University. The culprits? Data centers and cryptocurrency mining. Bills could rise as much as 25 percent in places like Virginia. Science writer Dan Charles explains why electric utilities are adding the cost of data center buildings to their customers' bills while the data companies pay nothing upfront.

A 13 minute audio story is at the link as well as a transcript.