Question remains-how to protect ratepayers and still create an AI future - Oklahoma Energy Today

Question remains-how to protect ratepayers and still create an AI future - Oklahoma Energy Today

Writing in the McCarville Report, a former Chief Counsel to a Corporation Commissioner says it’s one thing to protect consumers from growing electrical power costs for data centers and major industrial profits, but it’s also important the state build is way into the AI future. A.J. Ferate, an attorney and former Chief Counsel to former […]

Ferate: Oklahoma Should Build Its Way Into the AI Future

By A.J. Ferate Two things can be true at the same time. On one hand, electric consumers deserve the lowest-cost electricity possible. Utilities, the Southwest Power Pool, the Corporation Commission, and consumers all play a role in this. Oklahomans have benefited from this partnership to have some of the lowest utility costs in the nation. On the other is the reality that national security necessitates building strategic facilities in the United…