Senior Analyst Paul Arbaje writes:
The fight over Meta Platforms’ costly expansion of its data center project in northern Louisiana is heating up, with stakeholders just recently weighing in on the substance of the plan for powering the massive facility…
Expert testimony filed by Current Energy Group (CEG) on behalf of UCS and AAE shows that Entergy’s claimed “benefits” are premised on an unreasonably optimistic set of assumptions and quickly turn into higher ratepayer costs—potentially billions of dollars—once key uncertainties, such as data center demand and fuel costs, are examined. Further, Entergy’s analysis of power grid reliability was wholly inadequate for a project of this scale, failing to consider solutions that could have reduced both costs and emissions.