Surprise, Surprise. Entergy admits ratepayers will foot part of data center bill

Whichever public officials approved these projects should be investigated. As if our energy bills aren’t high already, we have to help foot the bill for some of the most valuable companies in all of history. Get the bums out of office

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This really should be the only answer. Meta agreed to pay for it. If they can't or won't now, then the infrastructure simply won't be built. They can change plans to accommodate what they are willing to pay for or end the project due to lack of funds.

Shock headline… actual quote:

“I expect that if there are assets providing value to customers that Entergy would seek to recover the cost of those assets in rates,” he said under oath at the hearing.

Entergy executives, including Jones, testified those updates will save the rest of the utility's customers $4 billion over 20 years.

But when pressed by Tournillon, Jones couldn’t promise that.

“That's not a guarantee of $4 billion,” he said. “That’s correct.”
Entergy spokesman Brandon Scardigli later clarified that the $4 billion figure is based on an analysis of "system-wide benefits ... quantified using complex models of the MISO (regional power grid) system and capacity expansion planning.”

The utility estimates an immediate benefit to customers of $1.9 billion from Meta’s investments in the state’s power grid.

That includes $695 million Meta is paying "toward storm and resilience costs on current customer bills," $140 million toward energy efficiency programs and $60 million to help Entergy's low-income customers, according to testimony from Laura Beauchamp, Entergy's vice president of business operations and strategy.