Will the Senate's BAAJA Bill Let AI Giants Outmuscle Utilities?

Yesterday the US Senate approved a preliminary version of a bill, the Bipartisan Affordability and Jobs Act, commonly referred to as BAAJA. We previously published an article in Oilprice titled, “The AI Power Grab That Could Upend America’s Utility Industry.” Our thesis was simple. Today’s AI giants (we referred to them as T-Rexes because economically they are akin to apex predators), thanks to their enormous size and political influence, will be permitted to build whatever electric power generating facilities they choose,…