Ben Inskeep

🚨Bombshell NIPSCO filing admits that it:🚨 📈has been overcharging >3,500 customers for gas service by 2x 🔎can't determine why/when it started 🏘️could still be incorrectly billing thousands of gas customers ⏲️waited 1 year to inform the IURC 💰won't fully refund customers

There are many reasons to resist AI (e.g. environmental harm, the power it gives to states/corporations, intellectual theft), but perhaps the biggest one for me is that, despite it all, I still believe that the human intellect is miraculous, irreplicable, & worth fighting for.

@panoramanow @cacindiana No it is 2.4 GW contract capacity for Amazon. 3 GW of resources are being built to serve them.

@Ben_Inskeep @cacindiana Its 3GW for amazon new article here : panoramanow.com/how-hobart-ind…

BREAKING🔴: @cacindiana has uncovered 2,600 MW of new load proposed by NIPSCO, including: 1,500 MW at Hobart (v likely the announced Amazon data center) 800 MW at Schahfer (also the site of a coal & gas plants) 300 MW at Michigan City (likely the Lavender Holdings data center)

@panoramanow What do you mean?

@Ben_Inskeep Isn’t this a business expense?

The Schahfer coal plant that the Trump administration is illegally ordering NIPSCO to keep open has lost ratepayers $222 million net over the past 3 years, according to RMI estimates.

More information: view.subscription.in.gov/?vawpToken=Q3J…

The Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission has announced the dates and times (6-8pm local unless otherwise noted) of 10 listening sessions across the state to hear from utility customers on the topic of energy affordability

The EPA’s workforce was reduced by roughly 4,000 in the last year, a 24% decrease and more than double the average cuts across the federal government. This is likely affecting the agency’s ability to enforce regulations. insideclimatenews.org/news/06032026/…

Absolutely not. If you are using AI to write you should 100% be ashamed. Shame is one of the last bulwarks against a total slop apocalypse.

BREAKING: The White House is out with a new National Policy framework for AI. The proposal says: "States should not be permitted to regulate AI development." It also says that states shouldn't be able to penalize AI companies when people break the law with their models.

So apparently a utility is able to build transmission for data centers without charging ratepayers? Utilities have almost universally said this would be bad policy.

Case documents, including CAC testimony (excerpted above) are available here: iurc.portal.in.gov/docketed-case-…

Amazon is single-handedly *doubling* the size of NIPSCO. It is one of the wealthiest corporations ever. Its data centers should pay their full cost of service -- and not a penny less. So why are NIPSCO ratepayers being shortchanged billions of dollars under this backroom deal?

A settlement that would approve 2,400 MW of Amazon data centers could shift some transmission costs onto NIPSCO ratepayers. We at @cacindiana think Amazon should pay its fair share -- including ALL of its transmission costs, per the Ratepayer Protection Pledge it just signed!

Read the full article here: climatecommunityinstitute.substack.com/p/data-center-…

Great points from @cplusci on why we should be challenging unconstrained AI data center energy demands instead of pretending that there are sustainable solutions to their profligate, rapidly expanding resource consumption

Indeed

Waiting for an apology from all the folks telling us this was "misinformation" and claiming data centers were gonna lower prices

My uni presented a pro gen-ai lecture to hundreds of art students today,most people walked out,complained to the uni head board and proceeded to have a 5 hour debate w the professors I’ve never seen people so unified 😭 i thought I was the only one that cared, there’s hope 😭 🙏

We can't have clean energy because it will destroy the oil industry. We can't have healthcare because it will destroy the health insurance industry. We can't have peace because it will destroy the weapon industry. Capitalism built a system we can't afford to do the right thing.

@EnviWood We are at 11 counties with moratoriums and at least 14 data center proposals have been stopped here in Indiana because we and our fellow Hoosiers didn't listen to people like you tellling us it wasn't possible to stop them

@Ben_Inskeep A moratorium is not realistic. Global data capacity will triple by 2030. The practical question is how to power that growth, not pretend it won't exist.

39% of new natural gas power plant capacity being developed in the US is for serving data centers on site?! We need an AI data center moratorium NOW! It's the only way to stop this climate catastrophe.

I'm sorry $17 billion for 4GW of gas turbines??? WTF is nextera doing.