A couple called Ken and Carol Apacki discovered their electricity bill had increased by 60% in only a single year in a central Ohio neighborhood. There were now 130 data centers in the area, and Carol thought she knew why. She was correct. The bill, which was once manageable, now depicts an event occurring at a scale that has surpassed the grid that was intended to serve everyone equally. The grid was constructed in the 1950s and 1960s for a nat…
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