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Bigger Pie Forum raises red flags on Amazon Web Services deal with the state
Bigger Pie Forum’s Kelley Williams speaks with Courtney Ann Jackson on this important story. Will consumer rates rise due to increased demands from Amazon’s Data Center? According to our research, the answer is yes. See the story on WLBT3’s website
Georgia’s PSC is in the game. Mississippi’s been benched.
The Public Service Commission’s (PSC’s) job is to protect small customers from big monopolies. Entergy Mississippi is part of Entergy Corporation. It’s a big electricity monopoly with utility subs in four states. It’s a government granted and government protected monopoly.
What About the EPA’s Endangerment Finding?
The EPA’s C02 Endangerment Finding of 2009 is under the gun by President Trump’s current (2025) initiative, “Unleashing American Energy.” Here is a quick timeline of important executive orders issued over the past 15 years to help lay out the landscape for legal battles to come.
Mini Mills, DeepSeek, and Amazon’s Data Centers
In 1969, Nucor opened its first mini steel mill in Darlington, SC. Its small electric furnaces produced steel from scrap cheaper and faster than the big integrated mills’ blast furnaces could from iron ore. Nucor disrupted the steel industry. Today, it’s the largest and most diversified steel company in North America, with a $45 billion market cap. Mini mills now account for 70% of all steel produced in the U.S. Former industry giant U.S. Steel has only two integrated mills left, a market cap of $8 billion, and is seeking to be acquired. Sic transit gloria.
SMRs and Other Unicorns
So what does any of this have to do with small modular nuclear reactors? Well there are lots of data centers pending. Microsoft recently announced three new ones. There’s not enough spare electricity capacity to power them. But at this time, SMR’s are just theories. Imaginary unicorns. Apparently there are none in the U.S. None, ready for prime time. None, ready to license their technologies.
Under the Bus
You might think the Governor and the Legislature threw Entergy Mississippi’s 461,000 customers under the bus as a sacrifice to the Economic Development Gods when they exempted the Amazon project from PSC oversight.