No on Xcel's Rate Increase Request

I urge the Public Utilities Commission to vote no on Xcel Energy's Natural Gas filing of December 29, 2025. An 11.4% increase is beyond laughable for a company with a net income of $1.915 billion from September 2024-September 2025.

It is also completely unwarranted given the recent outages across the front range and for not moving fast enough to produce energy with net zero emissions.

I also call on the PUC to halt new or existing data center construction projects. Data centers for AI applications are harmful to our environment, drive up consumer prices, and are a subsidy to giant corporations at the public's expense.