This week, policymakers at Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland Interconnection (PJM) – the organization managing the flow of electricity to 65 million people across 13 states and D.C. – have recently decided what to do about new data centers that are trying to join our electricity grid.

And, true to form, PJM are screwing ratepayers over.

Expensive data centers are popping up across the PJM region at a rapid clip, and they are energy guzzlers. There is a proposal from ratepayer protection and climate groups to incentivize these data centers to bring their own clean energy sources online before PJM lets them into our electrical grid. That makes perfect sense – if they’re going to make energy demand spike, they should also help with energy supply.

However, not only is PJM rejecting this pro

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