Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker Administration – Wirepoints
May 26, 2026
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With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Now it clicks in Putzgers mind that the reason no other states want data centers is the cost that comes with them. Hey Putz , our grid can’t handle the electric draw these monsters take either. Not all of us have generators like you to keep the lights on in a blackout
He is not addressing the water cost. That is also significant
All costs to the data centers are easily
generated, primary metering at the substation and water at the main valve input you can add natural gas to the mix.
The data centers will not like it they like to
reduce there costs at our expense.