AI Data Center 'Ratepayer Protection Act' is Cynical Handout to Big Tech

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Policy enables corporate impunity for environmental harm and utility cost externalization, violating SDGs and human rights. | The act prioritizes corporate interests over public welfare, directly enabling environmental degradation and resource exploitation. It undermines equitable access to affordable utilities (SDG 7, 12) and accelerates climate harm (SDG 13), while violating economic and social rights (UDHR Articles 22, 25). The absence of accountability mechanisms compounds systemic inequitie