Profits over People: 450,000 Michigan families are sitting in the dark tonight because a summer thunderstorm, in July, was enough to take down the grid. Again.
Let that sink in. Not a hurricane. Not an ice storm. A summer storm, and half a million people lose power heading into the Fourth of July.
Here is what makes it infuriating. DTE always seems to find the money and the urgency when it is time to cut sweetheart deals for data centers and big corporate customers. New infrastructure for them? Fast-tracked. Special rates for them? Done. But the basic grid that serves your home, the poles and lines that are supposed to keep your lights on and your food from spoiling and your medical equipment running, somehow that never gets the same attention.
Michigan families pay some of the highest rates in the region for some of the WORST reliability in the country. Rate hike after rate hike gets approved, the shareholders and executives do just fine, and the moment the wind blows, we are the ones lighting candles and throwing out a fridge full of groceries.
Politicians don’t care, as they take DTE’s money. DTE cannot keep charging people more and delivering them less. A utility that has a monopoly on your power has an obligation to the people first, not the corporate accounts and the data centers.
To every family in the dark tonight, stay safe, stay far away from downed lines, and remember this the next time DTE and their friends in Lansing ask you to trust them. Ask your politicians if they take DTE’s money - money that came from you.
Michigan deserves a grid that works for people, not one that works everyone except them. Let's make Michigan safe, normal, and responsible again! 🇺🇸
@realDonaldTrump@JDVance@MIGOP@MI_Republicans@Th_Midwesterner@stevegrubershow@MrJustinBarclay@gatewaypundit@Rescue_Michigan@HarmeetKDhillon@elonmusk@timlovesann@mifairelections@TruckerRandy@DonnieDetroit19@downi75
@iYacaroB@US_Stormwatch there is a severe lack of information in your map, mainly a scale for temperature. a color coded map is useless without it. the surface water temperature of the strait of hormuz and the atlantic ocean is not the same at this time of year.
again... your map is useless.
🔴 Énorme DINGUERIE encore des États-Unis...
L'arbitre somalien Omar Artan 🇸🇴 s'est vu refuser son entrée aux États-Unis, alors qu'il est sensé officier pendant la Coupe du Monde ! 🙄
Malgré l'aide appuyée de l'ambassade somalienne de Nairobi, qui lui a fourni un PASSEPORT DIPLOMATIQUE, M. Artan a dû faire demi tour à son arrivée aux USA.
On parle d'une personne qui a été élue MEILLEUR ARBITRE AFRICAIN EN 2025 ! 🤦♂️
(@Romain_Molina)
Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.
Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.
Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."
Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."
Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.
They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.
One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."
Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.
That's the metered intelligence business model.
And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.