as an electrical engineer who consults for utilities and worked directly for them for about 10 years I can tell you this isn’t directly the case… meaning they didn’t raise rates to force you to use cloud services.
Now what might have happened realistically is the data center is using so much electricity, the utility doesn’t have that kind of capacity available so they have to raise rates to mitigate the difference in energy usage and to also raise revenue to build more infrastructure.





My account of like 20 years got banned and I never received any reason why… still to this day have no idea. no messages or anything. I tried making a few more accounts but was using alias emails and VPNs and such and they all got banned. After that I figured why do I try to hard if they don’t want me so I jumped ship…
never looked back