{"id":244675,"date":"2026-04-24T12:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/244675\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T12:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:51:08","slug":"data-centers-and-the-fight-to-prevent-utility-hikes-orlando-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/244675\/","title":{"rendered":"Data centers and the fight to prevent utility hikes \u2013 Orlando Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this week\u2019s episode of Talking Central Florida, Amy Green from Inside Climate News and Molly Duerig from Central Florida Public Media discuss a recent report showing that utility company profit margins are driving customers\u2019 electricity bills higher. The panel breaks down what it means for Florida customers, along with concerns that growing demand from data centers could push costs even higher.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, a look at FEMA\u2019s readiness for hurricane season this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@TalkingCentralFlorida\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Talking Central Florida<\/a> is hosted by Steve Mort. The show gets in-depth analysis from the journalists covering our region\u2019s most important issues.<\/p>\n<p>The show is a production of the News Collaborative of Central Florida with support from Central Florida Public Media, the Orlando Sentinel, the Winter Park Voice, and the Central Florida Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>View every podcast from the show at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@TalkingCentralFlorida\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">youtube.com\/@TalkingCentralFlorida<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On this week\u2019s episode of Talking Central Florida, Amy Green from Inside Climate News and Molly Duerig from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1563,114,266,115,139,141,140,99,109,80971],"class_list":{"0":"post-244675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-latest-headlines","10":"tag-local-news","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-orlando","13":"tag-orlando-headlines","14":"tag-orlando-news","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-social","17":"tag-talking-central-florida"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}