James Baratta is a journalist based in New York City and a writing fellow at The American Prospect. He previously worked as a reporter at MandateWire, a Financial Times publication. His work has also appeared in Truthout, Politico and The Progressive.
DI has documented statements by James Baratta on Artificial Intelligence, Consumer Protection, and Energy Policy. Read the quotations, original sources and related cases below.
Role at the time: Writing fellow at The American Prospect
Condemned
Statement summary
James Baratta argues that the bill requires states to consider protections without mandating safeguards for data-center energy costs.
“it only requires states to consider ratepayer protection, without mandating any actual safeguards around paying for data center energy use.”
Open source (opens in a new tab)James Baratta commentary on the Senate rejection of the ratepayer billParagraph beginning Given what the bill actually does
Why we used this label
Baratta criticizes the bill for requiring states only to consider ratepayer protection, without mandating safeguards.
Husted says his bill would make data centers pay their infrastructure costs. Hickenlooper criticizes its force. States would have to consider, rather than automatically adopt, the proposed standard requiring cost recovery.
