Documents reveal plans for $6 utility rate hike to help fund Google’s data center project in Memphis

These documents were supposed to stay secret.

Entergy sued local newspapers, trying to keep its deal with Google confidential. The suit failed; the news is out. Entergy plans to hike West Memphis ratepayers’ utility bills by ~$6 each month for the next 20 years, all to fund Google’s new datacenter.

To fund the datacenter or to fund infrastructure expansion needed for the datacenter?