“The grid is a public asset. The people of Montana built it and maintain it through our rates. We should control who benefits from it, and on what terms. That question must be answered before the next rate case, before one more data center gets blacked out in a regulatory filing.”

I’m publishing an essay this week on the entanglement of electricity access (or lack thereof) and property “ownership,” but here’s Montana’s own Monica Tranel already covering a lot of the issues.