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Researcher Andy Masley says Senator Warren misinterpreted wholesale nodal power spikes as a 267% residential utility bill increase

Warren used the figure to support taxing AI data centers

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Andy Masley@AndyMasley#1272inTech

Warren's repeating the blatant lie that people's electricity bills near data centers have gone up by as much as 267%. Completely fake. This is a misreading of a Bloomberg article that found that wholesale nodal power prices very close to data centers rose as much as 267%. This is NOT a rate that residents pay, and her team is surely smart enough to know that. It has some effect on residential bills, but the effects haven't been large enough to be noticeable as a general pattern.

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/Tech10h ago

Researcher Andy Masley says Senator Warren misinterpreted wholesale nodal power spikes as a 267% residential utility bill increase

Warren used the figure to support taxing AI data centers

18670748431.1K

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Andy Masley@AndyMasley#1272inTech

7:51 AM · Jun 6, 2026 · 29.6K Views

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Michael Giberson@MichaelGiberso3

@AndyMasley The Bloomberg article tried to tie wholesale price increases near Virginia data centers to increases in Baltimore retail rates, rather than linking Baltimore wholesale prices to Baltimore rates and Virginia wholesale prices to Virginia retail rates. Why let logic get in the way?

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Cameron Afzal@CameronAfzal

@AndyMasley Isn’t there like an inverse correlation? Like California electricity prices have skyrocketed but data construction hasn’t here. Compare with say N Virginia - huge tax boon, without commensurate energy price inflation

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Bryan M. Likins@BMLESQ

@AndyMasley Completely agree, Andy. She also completely ignores the taxes they are paying. Two recent examples in IN. Hobart already got $40M+ day 1 of an Amazon DC lacking there and will get $40M/year for 15 years. Jasper got $90M year 1 and $20M/year for 15 years.

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JPZ@jpz0883

@AndyMasley @ewarren rarely lets facts get in the way of her agenda.

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Rage against the municipal planning commission@LukeB0yce

@AndyMasley It's so disappointing that Democrats have a very clear and obvious enemy in the Whitehouse but have decided to do this instead

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Bryan M. Likins@BMLESQ

@AndyMasley When done WRONG, any industry (including DCs) can have major negative consequences. When done RIGHT, as is the case currently, they can have huge benefits. NiSource’s NIPSCO/GenCo model is going to deliver $1.4 BILLION in electric rate credits to 500,000 IN customers over 15 yrs

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@AndyMasley Had Andy ever believed @SenWarren really got anything wrong, he'd have replied to her before tweeting to his Followers. But... 😜

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Cameron Afzal@CameronAfzal

@AndyMasley Also if policy makers really cared about electricity prices they’d make it easier to build power generation + transmission. This is just degrowth nonsense

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Rage against the municipal planning commission@LukeB0yce

@CameronAfzal @AndyMasley California has a ton of datacenters

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52% view AI data center projects unfavorably 31% view AI data center projects favorably 17% view AI data center projects neutrally

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See full breakdown → https://apps.apple.com/us/app/neutrapoll/id6771100073

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