Jim Morton

Data centers are driving up electricity costs across the country. In areas near data centers, wholesale electricity prices have spiked by as much as 267% in the past five years, according to a recent Bloomberg News article. Montana may be next.

In the past year, data center developers have announced plans for a half-dozen facilities in our state that will have enormous energy needs. Those developers keep promising bills will go down, but everywhere they build bills go up. Do they think Montanans can be duped so easily? Montana communities need to decide if they can afford these new neighbors.

High energy costs inflate prices across all sectors, which hurts families and businesses. Increasing energy costs can break budgets and create housing crises for folks living on a fixed

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