Exclusive: Graham Platner Supports ‘Anything’ to Slow Down Data Centers (opens in new tab)

We’re about to find out whether progressive energy populism can flip control of Congress. Graham Platner, the presumptive Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate from Maine, released an energy plan on Friday calling for a “national electricity rate freeze” to deal with high power prices, which many fear is in no small part from the scramble to build out new generation to meet new demand from data centers. Notably, however, the plan did not address data centers themselves. In an interview the n...