{"id":68886,"date":"2026-06-04T21:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T01:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=68886"},"modified":"2026-06-04T21:00:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T01:00:25","slug":"lakeland-residents-how-would-you-like-to-pay-an-additional-400-per-year-so-a-corporation-that-provides-no-benefits-to-the-community-can-have-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2026\/06\/04\/lakeland-residents-how-would-you-like-to-pay-an-additional-400-per-year-so-a-corporation-that-provides-no-benefits-to-the-community-can-have-electricity\/","title":{"rendered":"LAKELAND RESIDENTS: How would you like to pay an additional $400+ per year so a corporation that provides no benefits to the community can have electricity?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LAKELAND RESIDENTS: How would you like to pay an extra $400+ a year so a corporation that provides no benefits to the community can have electricity? Louisville, Kentucky, is currently dealing with the same kind of hyperscale data center issues that Lakeland is facing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They commissioned a study of Virginia\u2019s debacle of approving multiple data centers to be built in that state without getting all of the energy consumption facts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-dominant-color=\"7a8388\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #7a8388;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"572\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Gemini_Generated_Image_uzh648uzh648uzh6-1024x572.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-68300 not-transparent\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Gemini_Generated_Image_uzh648uzh648uzh6-1024x572.webp 1024w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Gemini_Generated_Image_uzh648uzh648uzh6-300x167.webp 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Gemini_Generated_Image_uzh648uzh648uzh6-768x429.webp 768w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Gemini_Generated_Image_uzh648uzh648uzh6.webp 1376w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, Kentucky&#8217;s Energy Planning Inventory Commission released its findings detailing that Virginia hyperscale data centers will increase the monthly cost of electricity for EVERY citizen of Virginia by up to $37 a month over the next 14 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is an increase of $444 per year for each resident and a total of $6,216 over the next 14 years. That is for electricity that each of those citizens will never use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-large-font-size wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What are your thoughts?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-embedpress-embedpress-pdf\"><div id=\"ep-gutenberg-content-d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e\" class=\"ep-gutenberg-content\"><div class=\"embedpress-document-embed ep-doc-embedpress-pdf-1780620912278   ep-fixed-width\" style=\"width:600px;height:600px;max-width:100%\" id=\"ep-doc-undefined\" data-source-id=\"source-undefined\" data-embed-type=\"PDF\"><div class=\"ep-embed-content-wraper\"><div class=\"position-right-wraper gutenberg-pdf-wraper\"><div class=\"main-content-wraper\"><iframe title=\"epic-report-no-2026-001\" style=\"height:600px;width:600px;max-width:100%\" class=\"embedpress-embed-document-pdf embedpress-pdf-1780620912278\" data-emid=\"embedpress-pdf-1780620912278\" data-viewer-style=\"modern\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=get_viewer&amp;scrolling=-1&amp;selection_tool=0&amp;spreads=0&amp;file=https%3A%2F%2Flakelandgazette.info%2Fnews%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2026%2F06%2Fepic-report-no-2026-001.pdf#key=dGhlbWVNb2RlPWRlZmF1bHQmcHJlc2VudGF0aW9uPXRydWUmbGF6eUxvYWQ9ZmFsc2UmcG9zaXRpb249dG9wJmZsaXBib29rX3Rvb2xiYXJfcG9zaXRpb249Ym90dG9tJmRvd25sb2FkPXRydWUmdG9vbGJhcj10cnVlJmNvcHlfdGV4dD10cnVlJmFkZF90ZXh0PXRydWUmZHJhdz1mYWxzZSZkb2NfZGV0YWlscz10cnVlJmRvY19yb3RhdGlvbj10cnVlJmFkZF9pbWFnZT10cnVlJnpvb21faW49dHJ1ZSZ6b29tX291dD10cnVlJmZpdF92aWV3PXRydWUmYm9va21hcms9dHJ1ZSZzZWxlY3Rpb25fdG9vbD0wJnNjcm9sbGluZz0tMSZzcHJlYWRzPTAmcGFnZU51bWJlcj0xJndhdGVybWFya190ZXh0PSZ3YXRlcm1hcmtfZm9udF9zaXplPTQ4JndhdGVybWFya19jb2xvcj0lMjMwMDAwMDAmd2F0ZXJtYXJrX29wYWNpdHk9MTUmd2F0ZXJtYXJrX3N0eWxlPWNlbnRlcg==\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAKELAND RESIDENTS: How would you like to pay an extra $400+ a year so a corporation that provides no benefits to the community can have electricity? 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