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117 - Electric Life and Power in Atlanta

117 - Electric Life and Power in Atlanta

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 Electrical systems are a central infrastructure of urbanisation, one which can raise living standards and which we need to help reduce carbon emissions. Electricity is a also business, its own fraction of capital, one with a captive market that profits from our everyday lives. In this episode, Wan Smith and Nikkie Luke join Gareth Fearn to talk about the history and present struggles over electricity in Atlanta, Georgia. They discuss the formation of the monopoly, investor owned utility, its role in the city and the state, the relationship between the utility and government through the Public Service Commission, and how electricity fits into the wider political economy of the US South. We also discuss how citizens in Atlanta have long contested the utility, fighting the racial and economic injustices the utility had been complicit in producing from trolley-car segregation through to the present day fight over hyperscale data-centre development.
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