{"id":239993,"date":"2026-06-30T07:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/the-ai-power-boom-is-reopening-the-public-utility-debate"},"modified":"2026-06-30T07:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:22:08","slug":"the-ai-power-boom-is-reopening-the-public-utility-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/the-ai-power-boom-is-reopening-the-public-utility-debate","title":{"rendered":"The AI Power Boom Is Reopening the Public Utility Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-ai-power-boom-is-reopening-the-public-utility-debate.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not Even Musk Has The Answer To AI\u2019s Power Shortage <a href=\"https:\/\/oilprice.com\/Energy\/Energy-General\/Not-Even-Musk-Has-The-Answer-To-AIs-Power-Shortage.html\">https:\/\/oilprice.com\/Energy\/Energy-General\/Not-Even-Musk-Has\u2026rtage.html<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>U.S. utilities are overcapitalized with expensive equity, claiming consumers could pay 10\u201315% less for electricity if utilities relied more heavily on low-cost government-backed debt, as seen in countries like France and historically in Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not Even Musk Has The Answer To AI\u2019s Power Shortage https:\/\/oilprice.com\/Energy\/Energy-General\/Not-Even-Musk-Has\u2026rtage.html U.S. utilities are overcapitalized with expensive equity, claiming consumers could pay 10\u201315% less for electricity if utilities relied more heavily on low-cost government-backed debt, as seen in countries like France and historically in Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}