
SEC BURGUM: “LAWMAKERS BROKE THE GRID, NOT DATA CENTERS”
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum just called out the real reason your energy bill is climbing, and it’s not AI or crypto.
Electricity in New England costs 3x more than in North Dakota and he says that’s thanks to bad energy policy, not data centers.
He slammed subsidies for unreliable sources like offshore wind, saying some projects cost $11B for 1GW of intermittent power, versus $1–2B for 24/7 reliable supply.
Burgum laid into what he called “climate extremists,” accusing them of prioritizing flashy green experiments over building energy systems that actually work.
The result is sky-high bills for electricity that cuts out when the weather does, while lawmakers pat themselves on the back for feel-good “net zero” policies that don’t add up.
Burgum:
“A lot of the higher prices that you're seeing are not related to the AI data centers.
The policy choices of the last 5 years, driven by sometimes climate extremists, were the ones that are driving up the prices you're seeing.”
Source: Bloomberg