NIPSCO is charging residents of Gary, Indiana up to $2,500 for electricity claiming their rates have raised when it's that NIPSCO is offloading the cost of operating AI hyperscale datacenters onto the Black residents, while leaving them in the dark. This is environmental racism.
"I paid $2500 for power — two weeks later I'm still out of power."
We went to Indiana, where thousands of people still haven't had the power switched back on.
In Gary, Maryville, and Hammond schools are closed, families are throwing away spoiled food, people are driving to Illinois to get ice for insulin.
Power rates are higher than ever, but people in the region are being put through hell just two years after Blackstone bought into their power company.
Now residents are fighting back against the utility company -- filing a class action lawsuit against it for negligence.
Should have known there was no tickets left after presale from when the starting price was tier 3 and they changed their live general sale time from 10am til 1pm 🤣 recessland the pain you caused on Wednesday calling me a bot sha
I always sound like a conspiracy theorist when I say this but things are not built how they used to be, i.e., made to last, made to be functional, etc., because of capitalism.