Day 11 Exposing AI Data Centers!

Even if we run our own municipal power utility in Coffeyville, we aren't on an electrical island-a data center's massive energy demand directly drives up our local electric bills. We buy our wholesale electricity and ship it over regional high-voltage transmission lines managed by the regional grid (SPP). When hyper-scale data centers drop hundreds of megawatts of demand onto the grid, it forces massive regional line upgrades, drains available power reserves, and jacks up wholesale capacity prices. Because CMLP is a community-funded utility with no corporate profit margins to absorb those price spikes, every single dollar of increased regional transmission and wholesale power cost gets passed directly down to local ratepayers. Evergy is asked Kansas regulators for a 196 million dollar rate increase, which would raise average residential bills by more than 10 percent. That is an extra 13 dollars every month for local families to fund power grid upgrades and new gas plants. They received an 8 dollar increase instead. At the exact same time, state regulators approved special large load tariffs as Evergy negotiates with over 20 massive data center projects across Kansas. Local families and small businesses should not be forced to subsidize utility expansions for Big Tech. Share this video with 3 neighbors in Montgomery County and sign our petition today. #coffeyville #evergy #utilities #kansas #fypツ