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I sure do love living in a fascist shithole where dumbfuck VC investors can be conned into investing trillions into deadend AI startups that require enough power to keep the eastern seaboard topped off, but the idea of publicly owned utilities that could at least think ahead more than 3 years and build redundant power plants to handle spikes in demand is literally unthinkable to the neoliberal political hegemony because clearly letting investors scalp energy prices for profit is more efficient! Please don't look at literally any privatized utility company's record on handling anything ever, even just day-to-day operations!