[whimsicalism]

> passing those costs on to other rate payers.

You are describing the normal process of purchasing things and how prices work. There is no nefarious passing on.

We should redistribute money from the wealthy to households, but I'm not sure if rate price controls beyond what already exists is the correct way to do it. The real issue with these data centers is tax jurisdiction shopping.

[bigbadfeline]

If "passing those costs on to other rate payers" is "the normal process of purchasing things" then the "normal process" is thoroughly and completely FUBAR-ed. That's a lot worse than some single, isolated case.

[whimsicalism]

If I hire a local babysitter in my area and thus bid up the price of babysitters, is some babysitter cartel “passing the costs” on to other parents or are we describing the standard approach of how buying and selling things works

[bigbadfeline]

Your analogy is wrong, here's the right version: You hire another babysitter in the community but she needs a car to commute, then under the guise of "public utility", all other babysitter customers are obliged to equally share the cost of the car and insurance although it would be serving you exclusively. I can see why you'd want something like that and why corrupt economists would pretend it's a fair game.

We're talking about capital and interest expenses for the benefit of a single customer but paid for by all other customers too. And also about Billions of $$ of commercial risk shifted to the shoulders of the public.