The Constitution says almost nothing about energy. The founders could not have imagined a national electric grid, let alone artificial intelligence data centers competing with homes and hospitals for power. And yet nearly every major energy decision in American history — who builds what, who pays for it, who bears the cost when it goes wrong — traces back to questions about the proper role of government that the country has never fully settled.

The fight is about electricity. But it is also about something larger: federal power versus state authority, private property versus the public interest and whether government should plan a transition or simply get out of the way.

It’s all on this weekend’s episode of America@250: Due Diligence tied to the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. https://open.substack.com/pub/newsguy/p/power-to-the-people?r=1g77q&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true