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Documents reveal plans for $6 utility rate hike to help fund Google’s data center project in Memphis
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this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2026
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These documents were supposed to stay secret.
Entergy sued local newspapers, trying to keep its deal with Google confidential. The suit failed; the news is out. Entergy plans to hike West Memphis ratepayers' utility bills by ~$6 each month for the next 20 years, all to fund Google's new datacenter.
To fund the datacenter or to fund infrastructure expansion needed for the datacenter?
Kinda sounds like a paying-the-electric-bill strike is in order.
Or a few well-placed rifle bullets in the power transformers that feed the datacenter.