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An analysis of residential electricity rates finds that investor-owned utilities charged customers 23% more per kilowatt-hour than publicly owned providers. The comparison draws on annual utility-level data covering revenue, electricity sold, number of homes served, and pricing collected since 2015 across the US and individual states.
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a package of seven bills that shield residential utility customers from bearing the costs of AI data center growth. The laws create a new rate category for data centers through the state's Public Utilities Commission, mandate disclosure of water and energy use to local governments, and require efficiency benchmarks before facilities can get streamlined approval.
Charter's Spectrum brand has finished absorbing Cox, with former Cox customers now billed by Spectrum starting Wednesday. The deal, agreed in May 2025, cleared its last regulatory hurdle after the California Public Utilities Commission approved it last month, giving Charter over 35 million customers nationwide.