Under this Ratepayer Protection Pledge, companies are agreeing to practices that are intended to protect residents from seeing higher electricity costs as more and more businesses create power-hungry data centers. Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle and xAI have all apparently signed on.
"We've all spent months reliving the trauma, listing and uploading pictures of every single item we lost, only to have our claims undervalued, delayed or denied," said wildfire survivor Jill Spivack. "Palisades families like mine are left exhausted, anxious and financially drained. Some are paralyzed in indecision, not knowing if they have the money to rebuild. Some are simply giving up."